Re: pageable page tables

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:55:39 +0100


On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 09:37:00PM +0100, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Another concern is that users can grab _all_ of system memory
> by having several processes do a 2GB mmap of /dev/zero...
> This 'doesn't take any memory' so they can take up as much
> (non-pageable) pagetable memory as they want.
> In fact, this is the main reason people asked me if I could look
> into this... This is one of the biggest denial-of-service holes
> still left. (ssstt)

So the resource accounting should count those pages also.

Ralf