From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] kmalloc() nofail allocations
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:38:19 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822093819.GA13665@openwall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110822092429.GA29597@albatros>
Vasiliy,
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:24:29PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Major problem with the idea in general:
...
> Unlikely, but fully possible case - we want some memory and the OOM killer
> kills us for our wish.
How/why is this a major problem with the idea in general? I am probably
missing something.
Thanks,
Alexander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-22 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 19:15 [kernel-hardening] kmalloc() nofail allocations Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-20 14:27 ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-20 16:31 ` [kernel-hardening] " Solar Designer
2011-08-22 9:24 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-22 9:38 ` Solar Designer [this message]
2011-08-22 9:45 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-22 9:53 ` Solar Designer
2011-08-22 10:05 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
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