Re: local denial-of-service with file leases

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 14:25:32 EST


On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:35 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * 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?

Sure, but I'd like a mail from Avi confirming that this patch too fixes
his problem, please.

Cheers,
Trond

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