[systemd-devel] /run DoS

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 03.04.11 13:10, Michał Piotrowski (mkkp4x4 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I can write to /run/user/michal in this way I can fill the entire free
> tmpfs space which is not good from my POV.

Yupp, this is trivially fixable by placing another tmpfs on /run/user,
which can be done by installing a run-user.mount unit.

We considered doing so by default, but stepped back a little, since we
didn't want to add another tmpfs to the mix, just like that. But yeah,
we probably should do that.

Lennart

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