Re: [PATCH] blktrace: put bounds on BLKTRACESETUP buf_size and buf_nr

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On 6/8/20 4:40 PM, harshad shirwadkar wrote:
>  From what I understand, there's no alternative to having a fix in the
> kernel. That's because, if the kernel is not fixed and only the
> commonly used user-space apps are fixed, I can always write a new
> program to break the kernel. So, as mentioned above, maybe we can make
> these limits configurable via sysfs but we'll need these bound checks
> in the kernel.

Okay, thanks for the explanation.




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