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Revision 5afeb104e7901168b21aad0437fb51dc620dfdd3 authored by Oliver Neukum on 11 June 2007, 13:36:02 UTC, committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman on 26 June 2007, 06:38:06 UTC 
USB: usblcd doesn't limit memory consumption during write
 
usblcd currently has no way to limit memory consumption by fast writers.
This is a security problem, as it allows users with write access to this
device to drive the system into oom despite resource limits.
Here's the fix taken from the modern skeleton driver.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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USB: usblcd doesn't limit memory consumption during write
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pnode.h 
/*
 *  linux/fs/pnode.h
 *
 * (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2005.
 *	Released under GPL v2.
 *
 */
#ifndef _LINUX_PNODE_H
#define _LINUX_PNODE_H

#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>

#define IS_MNT_SHARED(mnt) (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_SHARED)
#define IS_MNT_SLAVE(mnt) (mnt->mnt_master)
#define IS_MNT_NEW(mnt)  (!mnt->mnt_ns)
#define CLEAR_MNT_SHARED(mnt) (mnt->mnt_flags &= ~MNT_SHARED)
#define IS_MNT_UNBINDABLE(mnt) (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_UNBINDABLE)

#define CL_EXPIRE    		0x01
#define CL_SLAVE     		0x02
#define CL_COPY_ALL 		0x04
#define CL_MAKE_SHARED 		0x08
#define CL_PROPAGATION 		0x10

static inline void set_mnt_shared(struct vfsmount *mnt)
{
	mnt->mnt_flags &= ~MNT_PNODE_MASK;
	mnt->mnt_flags |= MNT_SHARED;
}

void change_mnt_propagation(struct vfsmount *, int);
int propagate_mnt(struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
		struct list_head *);
int propagate_umount(struct list_head *);
int propagate_mount_busy(struct vfsmount *, int);
#endif /* _LINUX_PNODE_H */
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