Re: [PATCH v3] drm: Account property blob allocations to memcg

From: Maxime Ripard

Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 05:26:43 EST


On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:22:26 -0500, Xiao Kan wrote:
> DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATEPROPBLOB allows userspace to allocate arbitrary-sized
> property blobs backed by kernel memory.
>
> Currently, the blob data allocation is not accounted to the allocating
> process's memory cgroup, allowing unprivileged users to trigger unbounded
> kernel memory consumption and potentially cause system-wide OOM.
>
> [...]

Applied to misc/kernel.git (drm-misc-next).

Thanks!
Maxime