Re: [PATCH 0/3] kthread: pass in user and check RLIMIT_NPROC

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> The vhost driver will create a kthread when userspace does a
> VHOST_SET_OWNER ioctl, but the thread is charged to the kthreadd thread.
> We can then end up violating the userspace process's RLIMIT_NPROC. This
> patchset allows drivers to pass in the user to charge/check.
> 
> The patches were made over Linus's current tree.
> 


Makes sense I guess.

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>