Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 11:15:01 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Much the same holds for the atomic_t's; 32 + PAGE_SHIFT is
44 bits or more, about as much as is possible, and one reference per
page per page is not even feasible. Full-length atomic_t's are just
not necessary.
You can overflow a page's refcount by mapping it 4G times. That requires
32GB of pagetable memory. It's quite feasible with remap_file_pages().
But do anybody ever need to do that?
Such an attack is easily thwarted by refusing to map it more
than, say 3G times?
Helge Hafting
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