Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0) | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 2002 02:36:17 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> With current Linux kernels, this careful coding brings no benefit > whatsover, as malloc never (?) returns NULL. What is worse, as far as > I know the kernel doesn't send advance warning of an OOM situation; it > would not be too difficult to stop allocating memory when that happens.
With properly configured systems and mode 2/3 overcommit set you an get NULL back from malloc Its up to the user - 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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