Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 17:11:28 EST


> On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:56:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Just cover the 1Gb poll array DoS case and it should be fine
>
> We already do
>
> err = -EINVAL;
> if (nfds > current->files->max_fds)
> goto out;
>
> ie you can't poll for more file descriptors than the process has.
> Which is in turn ulimited. What else can we reasonably check?

That should be more than adequate.

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