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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size
On 14 Sep 2010 at 16:04, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > userland could never rely on the kernel's policy at all since get_arg_page
> > could have failed for more reasons than overstepping the currently hardcoded
> > ARG_MAX check in there.
>
> I don't see how it could fail except for OOM cases where get_user_pages()
> failed rather than blocking. Is that what you mean?

yes but it's not only OOM (ENOMEM from some allocation), but it can be also
EPERM from LSM (if mmap_min_addr is set too high) or EFAULT from get_user_pages
(e.g., if VM_FAULT_HWPOISON was returned for a requested page).



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