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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Warn the user when they could overflow mapcount
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:56:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180208185648.GB9524@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+DvKQLHDR0s=6r4uiHL8kw2_PnfJcwYfPxgQOmuLbc=5k39+g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Daniel Micay wrote:
> The standard map_max_count / pid_max are very low and there are many
> situations where either or both need to be raised.

[snip good reasons]

> I do think the default value in the documentation should be fixed but
> if there's a clear problem with raising these it really needs to be
> fixed. Google either of the sysctl names and look at all the people
> running into issues and needing to raise them. It's only going to
> become more common to raise these with people trying to use lots of
> fine-grained sandboxing. Process-per-request is back in style.

So we should make the count saturate instead, then?  That's going to
be interesting.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-08 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-08  2:11 [RFC] Warn the user when they could overflow mapcount Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-08  2:56 ` Jann Horn
2018-02-08  4:04   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-08 17:58   ` valdis.kletnieks
2018-02-08 18:05   ` Daniel Micay
2018-02-08 18:56     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-02-08 19:33       ` Daniel Micay
2018-02-08 19:42         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-08 19:48           ` Daniel Micay
2018-02-08 20:21             ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-08 21:37               ` [RFC] Limit mappings to ten per page per process Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-09  4:26                 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-02-14 13:51                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-14 14:05                     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-02-09  1:47               ` [RFC] Warn the user when they could overflow mapcount Daniel Micay
2018-02-08  3:18 ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-02-08  4:06   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-02 21:26 ` [RFC] Handle mapcount overflows Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-02 22:03   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-05-01 14:41   ` Jann Horn

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