Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 05 Oct 2003 18:09:24 +0200 | From | Christian Kujau <> | Subject | Re: reiserfs one user DoS? |
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Hans Reiser schrieb: > Max A. Krasilnikov wrote: > >> Hi! >> I have found such strange thing: >> >> pseudo@avalon at 14:04:00 ~> dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1 count=0 >> seek=1000000000000 >> >> After that my Intel Celeron 800 MHz/384M RAM 60G/Seagate U6 under >> Linux-2.4.22-grsec on reiserfs was utilized 100% for more than 2 hours. >> dd process can't be killed. >> >> Is this my flow or real bug? >> >> >> > it is fixed in reiser4. linux has a lot of DOS vulerabilities to logged > in users, mostly due to the ability to consume all of some resource or > another. forgive me for not discussing them publicly.;-)
perhaps "ulimit" could help here.
man bash-builtins, search for "ulimit" then.
Christian. -- BOFH excuse #153:
Big to little endian conversion error
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