Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:11:08 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/5] signalfd v2 - signalfd core ... |
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Also. A malicious user can eat all memory, signalfd_deliver()->kmem_cache_alloc() > doesn't check any limits.
This, btw, is one reason I *really* think signalfd() should just use the same old signal queue, and not try to make its own.
Signal queueing and unqueuing simply isn't that simple.
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