On 04/08/2014 10:49 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:45:31AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > It seems that when we attempt to read huge chunks of data from a seq file > > there would be no check for the size being read, leading to the kernel > > attempting to allocate huge chunks of data internally. > > > > As far as I remember, there was a PAGE_SIZE limitation on those, but I'm > > not certain about that. Could someone please confirm it? > > I've had this diff sitting around for a while to figure out which > seq_file we're talking about. I think Al wrote it, I forget..
I'll add it in. I didn't realize it was a problem with a specific file, I thought it was an issue with seq files in general. Thanks, Sasha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
