Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:04:29 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs |
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:56:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Just cover the 1Gb poll array DoS case and it should be fine
We already do
err = -EINVAL; if (nfds > current->files->max_fds) goto out;
ie you can't poll for more file descriptors than the process has. Which is in turn ulimited. What else can we reasonably check?
r~
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