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Message-ID: <4235.1219915184@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:19:44 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/59] Introduce credentials
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > We get a number of things:
> >
> > (1) Multiple credential changes all happen simultaneously (setresuid() for
> > example). The new set of credentials is committed with a single RCU
> > assignment.
>
> Makes sense - except for the question of bounding memory utilisation.
Would it make sense to call synchronise_rcu() from commit_creds() or from
setuid()/setresuid()/setgroups()/etc. to make sure that some user process
doing:
while (1)
alter_credentials();
doesn't run the system out of memory by having loads of frees waiting in RCU's
queues because put_cred() uses call_rcu() to defer the destruction.
David
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