From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Gustavo Chain <g@0xff.cl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reserve N process to root
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <470C66A6.2060801@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010011523.7d6cca12@0xff.cl>
Gustavo Chain wrote:
> El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:19:27 +0930
> David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> escribió:
>
>> Gustavo Chain wrote:
>>
>>> I think it's necessary to reserve some pids to the super user.
>>> 5 must be sufficient.
>>>
>> Why? (Sorry if I missed something.)
>>
>
> ¿ To prevent a posible DoS ?
>
That was what I thought you had in mind; it protects from some kind of
fork bomb, right? But it doesn't seem useful unless you guarantee
having a process already running (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN) *before* the bomb
goes off.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-09 23:48 [PATCH] Reserve N process to root Gustavo Chain
2007-10-10 1:49 ` David Newall
2007-10-10 5:15 ` Gustavo Chain
2007-10-10 5:44 ` David Newall [this message]
2007-10-10 13:46 ` Gustavo Chain
2007-10-10 14:13 ` David Newall
2007-10-10 19:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-10 21:02 ` g
2007-10-11 0:05 ` David Newall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-11 21:02 Al Boldi
2007-10-12 2:42 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-10-12 5:37 ` Al Boldi
2007-10-12 5:49 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-10-12 6:29 ` Al Boldi
2007-10-13 1:34 ` Gustavo Chain
2007-10-13 5:01 ` Al Boldi
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