Re: local denial-of-service with file leases

From: Chris Wright
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 13:35:08 EST


* Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Bruce has a simpler patch (see attachment). The call to fasync_helper()
> in order to free active structures will have already been done in
> locks_delete_lock(), so in principle, all we want to do is to skip the
> fasync_helper() call in fcntl_setlease().

Yes, that's better, thanks. Will you make sure it gets to Linus?

thanks,
-chris
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