Messages in this thread | | | Subject | DoS with POSIX file locks? | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:41:21 +0100 |
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Unlike open files there doesn't seem to be any limit on the number of locks being held either globally or by a single process.
Hence an unprivileged process can consume large amounts of unswappable kernel memory even if there are strict limits on other resources.
Is there a reason why this shouldn't be a problem?
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