Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 22 Jun 2002 02:36:17 +0100 (BST)

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> With current Linux kernels, this careful coding brings no benefit
> whatsover, as malloc never (?) returns NULL. What is worse, as far as
> I know the kernel doesn't send advance warning of an OOM situation; it
> would not be too difficult to stop allocating memory when that happens.

With properly configured systems and mode 2/3 overcommit set you an
get NULL back from malloc Its up to the user
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