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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:37:16 +0100
From:      alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer)
To:        Charlie Root <iasenkk@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/23740: kernel DoS tha could be executed by any user
Message-ID:  <20001222173716.C2743@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012221120.eBMBK2653894@freefall.freebsd.org>; from iasenkk@hotmail.com on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:20:02AM -0800
References:  <200012221120.eBMBK2653894@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Thus spake Charlie Root (iasenkk@hotmail.com):

>  OK for user limits let it be so , but memory allocation ?
>  And FreeBSD 4.0 doesn't do it that way (just table is full or some
>  thing) and nothing more
>  no panic no lockups that could beak up your file system.

fork() should return EAGAIN or ENOMEM.
The kernel shouldn't panic.  This is a bug.

Alex

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