Re: [patch] af_unix fix for a panic a DoS and a memory leak [Re:

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 19:48:01 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

>Yes, you can do it. I don't think that ENOMEM is the right return value
>here - ECONNREFUSED is more reasonable, IMHO. But yes, we need to limit

[..]
err = -ECONNREFUSED;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
if (other == NULL || other->dead || other->state != TCP_LISTEN)
goto out;

/* Fail if the listen backlog is just full. -arca */
if (other->ack_backlog >= other->max_ack_backlog)
goto out;
^^^^^^^^
[..]

I am just using -ECONNREFUSED ;).

Andrea Arcangeli

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