Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)

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To: "Arjan van de Ven" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)
From: "Ollie Wild" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:13:26 -0700
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], "Linus Torvalds" <[email protected]>, "Ingo Molnar" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Andrew Morton" <[email protected]>, "Andi Kleen" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "David Howells" <[email protected]>
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on first sight it looks like you pin the entire userspace buffer at the
same time (but I can misread the code; this stuff is a bit of a
spaghetti by nature); that would be a DoS scenario if true...


I'm not sure I understand.  Could you please elaborate?

Thanks,
Ollie
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