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Re: [PATCH v0.9.1 3/6] sched/umcg: implement UMCG syscalls

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-11-24 22:18:48
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 01:13:24PM -0800, Peter Oskolkov wrote:
+die:
+	pr_warn("%s: killing task %d\n", __func__, current->pid);
+	force_sig(SIGKILL);
That pr_warn() might need to be pr_warn_ratelimited() in order to no be
a system log DoS.

Because, AFAICT, you can craft userspace to trigger this arbitrarily
often, just spawn a worker and make it misbehave.
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