Re: [patch] mlock-as-nonroot revisted

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:38:57PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:36:34PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > The user that mlock'd gets to pay for it, and gets his credits back at
> > > munlock. Chown doesn't really matter in that regard..... The thing that does
> > 
> > what? he cannot get credits when it munlock if this is hugetlbfs. If it
> > does you're again into the insecure DoS scenario.
> 
> not if you keep track of who locked in the first place and give the credit
> back to *that* user (struct).

I wasn't talking about chown above. I mean, where's the truncate that
releases the user-struct-bind? You just can't release the
user-struct-bind from
munlock/exit/whatever-task-opeartion-different-from-truncate-or-chown.

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