From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 02:31:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111107073127.GA7410@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320614101.3226.5.camel@offbook>
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:15:01PM -0300, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
>
> This patch adds a new RLIMIT_TMPFSQUOTA resource limit to restrict an individual user's quota across all mounted tmpfs filesystems.
> It's well known that a user can easily fill up commonly used directories (like /tmp, /dev/shm) causing programs to break through DoS.
Please jyst implement the normal user/group quota interfaces we use for other
filesystem.
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 02:31:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111107073127.GA7410@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320614101.3226.5.camel@offbook>
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:15:01PM -0300, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
>
> This patch adds a new RLIMIT_TMPFSQUOTA resource limit to restrict an individual user's quota across all mounted tmpfs filesystems.
> It's well known that a user can easily fill up commonly used directories (like /tmp, /dev/shm) causing programs to break through DoS.
Please jyst implement the normal user/group quota interfaces we use for other
filesystem.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-07 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-06 21:15 [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas Davidlohr Bueso
2011-11-06 21:15 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2011-11-06 22:10 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-06 22:10 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-07 7:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-11-07 7:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-07 11:29 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-07 11:29 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-07 14:20 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2011-11-07 14:20 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2011-11-07 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 14:27 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-07 14:27 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-07 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 22:57 ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-07 22:57 ` Glauber Costa
2011-11-07 23:07 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-07 23:07 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-07 23:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 23:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-08 0:25 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-08 0:25 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-08 0:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-08 0:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 14:30 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-07 14:30 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-07 22:15 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-07 22:15 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-07 22:37 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-07 22:37 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-08 0:33 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-08 0:33 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-11-07 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-07 9:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-11-07 14:49 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2011-11-07 14:49 ` Davidlohr Bueso
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