Re: Memory overcommit

[Hugh Dickins]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> Not sure where the -stable reference came from, I don't think this is a 
> candidate.

I agree with David, this is only one little piece of a messy puzzle,
there's no good reason to rush this into -stable.

> > +	if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
> > +	    has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) ||
> > +	    has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
> 
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(as far as it goes: the whole thing of quartering badness here
because "we don't want to kill" and "important" is questionable;
but definitely much more open to argument both ways than sixteenthing).
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