Re: [patch 2/5] signalfd v2 - signalfd core ...

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> Also. A malicious user can eat all memory, signalfd_deliver()->kmem_cache_alloc()
> doesn't check any limits.

This, btw, is one reason I *really* think signalfd() should just use the 
same old signal queue, and not try to make its own.

Signal queueing and unqueuing simply isn't that simple. 

		Linus
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