Hi
I think Its not worth to make it configurable just for one printk
statement. am i missing something?
anand
On 8/16/07, Krzysztof Halasa <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Anand Jahagirdar" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > +++ linux-2.6.17/kernel/fork.c
> > + /*
> > + * following code does not allow Non Root User to cross its process
> > + * limit and it alerts administrator about user Nearing the process limit.
> > + */
> > +
> > if (atomic_read(&p->user->processes) >= p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur)
> > if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) &&
> > - p->user != &root_user)
> > + p->user != &root_user) {
> > + if (printk_ratelimit())
> > + printk(KERN_WARNING "User with uid %u is Nearing the process limit\n",p->user->uid);
> > +
> > goto bad_fork_free;
>
> At least make that configurable - on some systems users are allowed
> 50 processes or so and I'm sure admins don't really want to know
> which particular users are currently close to limits.
>
> I don't really find the above useful. Perhaps we should warn when users
> try to write to R/O files or execute root-only commands etc?
> --
> Krzysztof Halasa
>
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