Re: [RESEND] shm: shm exit scalability fixes

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 14:55 -0500, Jack Miller wrote:
> Even if this is synthetic, the testcase could also be seen as proof of an
> unprivileged denial of service as an arbitrary user could run bust_shm_exit
> and subsequently start overloading the system.

We have the shmmni limit (and friends) for that.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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