Re: [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:04 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After this patch, execve() expand stack at first and receive to
> check vm_enough_memory() properly. then, too long argument of
> execve() than the machine memory return EFAULT properly.

This is horrible. We don't want to walk the arguments one more time
just for this. Let's just improve the checks that we do as we go
along.

                            Linus
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