From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
To: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oss-security@lists.openwall.com,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, pageexec@freemail.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:53:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831115304.GA27486@openwall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100830220847.GA24980@grsecurity.net>
Brad, Roland -
Thank you for your comments and your work on this.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:08:47PM -0400, Brad Spengler wrote:
> There shouldn't be any additional risk from adding the extra rescheds,
> as copy_*_user can already sleep and be raced against via a number of
> methods.
Agreed.
Alexander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-31 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-27 22:02 [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer Kees Cook
2010-08-30 0:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-30 0:56 ` Roland McGrath
2010-08-30 3:23 ` Solar Designer
2010-08-30 10:06 ` Roland McGrath
2010-08-30 19:48 ` Solar Designer
2010-08-31 0:40 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-08 2:34 ` [PATCH 0/3] execve argument-copying fixes Roland McGrath
2010-09-08 2:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size Roland McGrath
2010-09-08 8:29 ` pageexec
2010-09-10 8:59 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-11 13:30 ` pageexec
2010-09-14 19:33 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-14 22:35 ` pageexec
2010-09-08 11:57 ` Brad Spengler
2010-09-09 5:31 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-10 9:25 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-10 9:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-11 13:39 ` pageexec
2010-09-14 18:51 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-14 20:28 ` pageexec
2010-09-14 21:16 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-14 22:27 ` pageexec
2010-09-14 23:04 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-15 9:27 ` pageexec
2010-09-10 9:18 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-08 2:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] execve: improve interactivity with large arguments Roland McGrath
2010-09-08 2:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] execve: make responsive to SIGKILL " Roland McGrath
2010-09-08 3:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] execve argument-copying fixes KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-09 5:01 ` [PATCH 0/2] execve memory exhaust of " KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-09 5:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] oom: don't ignore rss in nascent mm KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-09 22:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-09-10 9:39 ` Roland McGrath
2010-09-10 9:57 ` [PATCH] move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-10 17:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-09-16 5:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-09 5:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-10 15:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-09-14 1:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 5:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 15:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-30 17:49 ` [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer Solar Designer
2010-08-30 22:08 ` Brad Spengler
2010-08-31 11:53 ` Solar Designer [this message]
2010-08-31 11:56 ` [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately triggerOOM-killer Tetsuo Handa
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