Re: get_user_pages pinning: 2^22 page refs max?

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On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Jann Horn wrote:
> Regarding the LSFMM talk today:
> So with the page ref bias, the maximum number of page references will
> be something like 2^22, right? Is the bias only applied to writable
> references or also readonly ones?

2^21, because it's going to get caught by the < 0 check.

I think that's fine, though.  Anyone trying to map that page so many times
is clearly doing something either malicious or inadvertently very wrong.
After the 2 millionth time, attempting to pin the page will fail, and
the application will have to deal with that failure.




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