Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:40:52 +0100 | From | Stefan Hajnoczi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] kthread: pass in user and check RLIMIT_NPROC |
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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:
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