From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, mst@redhat.com,
sgarzare@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, christian@brauner.io,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org,
christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] kthread: pass in user and check RLIMIT_NPROC
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:40:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNRTJFHxSlUSEqL5@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210624030804.4932-1-michael.christie@oracle.com>
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> The vhost driver will create a kthread when userspace does a
> VHOST_SET_OWNER ioctl, but the thread is charged to the kthreadd thread.
> We can then end up violating the userspace process's RLIMIT_NPROC. This
> patchset allows drivers to pass in the user to charge/check.
>
> The patches were made over Linus's current tree.
Makes sense from a vhost perspective and for future users, but I'm not
familiar with the kthread internals:
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-28 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-24 3:08 [PATCH 0/3] kthread: pass in user and check RLIMIT_NPROC Mike Christie
2021-06-24 3:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] kthread: allow caller to pass in user_struct Mike Christie
2021-06-24 4:34 ` kernel test robot
2021-06-24 16:19 ` Mike Christie
2021-06-24 3:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] kernel/fork, cred.c: allow copy_process to take user Mike Christie
2021-06-29 13:04 ` Christian Brauner
2021-06-29 16:53 ` Mike Christie
2021-07-01 23:59 ` michael.christie
2021-06-24 3:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] vhost: pass kthread user to check RLIMIT_NPROC Mike Christie
2021-06-24 8:26 ` kernel test robot
2021-06-24 16:18 ` Mike Christie
2021-06-24 7:34 ` [PATCH 0/3] kthread: pass in user and " Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-06-24 9:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
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