Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Robert Paskowitz <r2d2@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] grsec Resource logging
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:24:39
Message-Id: 42FF7CA7.1050206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] grsec Resource logging by Christoph Gysin
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4 Christoph Gysin wrote:
5 > I'm playing around with grsecurity. Now I get lots of messages like this:
6 >
7 > grsec: denied resource overstep by requesting 7499776 for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
8 > against limit 32768 for /usr/sbin/ntpd[ntpd:8525] uid/euid:123/123
9 > gid/egid:123/123, parent /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
10 >
11 > As far as I understand, ntpd is trying to allocate more memory than it
12 > is allowed due to resource limits. The limit seems to be 32M while ntpd
13 > tries to allocate 7G (!) of RAM?
14 >
15 > What is wrong here?
16 >
17 > Christoph
18
19 [Bug 99713] ntpd hits RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit
20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99713
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