Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)

From: Ollie Wild
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 13:13:47 EST


on first sight it looks like you pin the entire userspace buffer at the
same time (but I can misread the code; this stuff is a bit of a
spaghetti by nature); that would be a DoS scenario if true...

I'm not sure I understand. Could you please elaborate?

Thanks,
Ollie
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