linux-kernel - Re: [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts

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Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:10:55 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, serue@...ibm.com,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts


On Apr 21 2007 10:57, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> tmpfs!
>
>tmpfs is a possible problem because it can consume lots of ram/swap. 
>Which is why it has limits on the amount of space it can consume. 

Users can gobble up all RAM and swap already today. (Unless they are
confined into an rlimit, which, in most systems, is not the case.)
And in case /dev/shm exists, they can already fill it without running
into an rlimit early.

>Those are set as mount options as I recall.  Which means that we
>would need to do something different with respect to limits before
>tmpfs could become safe for an untrusted user to mount.
>
>Still it's close.


Jan
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