linux-kernel - Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)

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Message-Id: <1160553621.3000.355.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:00:21 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ollie Wild <aaw@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, parisc-linux@...ts.parisc-linux.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 17:05 -0700, Ollie Wild wrote:

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...


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