On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> wrote: > The vmalloc space needed by cpu_opv is bound by the number of pages > a cpu_opv call can touch.
No it's not. You can have a thousand different processes doing cpu_opv at the same time. A *single* cpu_opv may me limited toi "only" a megabyte, but I'm not seeing any global limit anywhere. In short, this looks like a guaranteed DoS approach to me. Linus