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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:54:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: > > > > Most of the local DoS's I'm aware of are memory management -related, > > i.e. user- triggerable proliferation of pinned kernel data structures. > > Well. A heck of a lot of the DoS opportunities we've historically seen > involved memory leaks, deadlocks or making the kernel go oops or BUG with > locks held or with kernel memory allocated. I think we can probably exclude root-only local DoS from the full embargo treatment for starters. The recent /dev/random sysctl one was in that category. I can imagine some local DoS bugs that are worth keeping a lid on for a bit. Classic F00F bug may have been a good example. But hole in an arbitrary driver may not. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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