>What prevents a rogue user to call this function a number of times to >waste resources?
Sorry to jump in, but wasting resources is a different matter than overwriting kernel memory. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/
