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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"the arch\/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hang on large copy_from_user with PREEMPT_NONE
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:19:05 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnj03dym.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFz8gByWhuAgW4fER8uw=q9E=tcN6LeS3YqCOqYsOfwPxA@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Alternatively, we could just limit module loading size to some (fairly
> arbitrary) big number.

Yeah, we used to do that because vmalloc would BUG rather than
returning NULL.

But you're already CAP_SYS_MODULE in this path, which kind of makes it
hard to care very much about it being slow under virtualization.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-08  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06  3:59 Hang on large copy_from_user with PREEMPT_NONE Sasha Levin
2015-04-06 11:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-06 14:51   ` Sasha Levin
2015-04-06 16:52     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-06 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-06 19:08   ` Sasha Levin
2015-04-06 19:36     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-06 23:45       ` Sasha Levin
2015-04-06 20:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-07  1:49       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2015-04-07  9:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07 10:39         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-07 11:05           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07 14:30             ` Michal Hocko
2015-04-07 14:37               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07 17:00                 ` Sasha Levin
2015-04-07 17:33                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-07 17:58                     ` Dave Jones
     [not found]                       ` <CA+55aFyxCb9aDfh0L4gyvHMSefOFoD7zftRpWbnvf5j9iZVaMw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-07 21:09                         ` Dave Jones

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