Re: knfsd 1.5 is released
H . J . Lu (hjl@valinux.com)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:36:43 -0700
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:38:50AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > That implies a far more fundamental change. I designed the callback system
> > so that the kernel could just drop the requests when it made the callback.
> > That way, there's no possibility of making a DoS by filling up the RPC
> > buffers with requests that you know the kernel will have to callback for.
>
> I agree with David. Making upcalls that wait for the user land to do
> something is a bad idea. If you wait for mountd to decide on whether
I tried to fix it in knfsd 1.5.2.
H.J.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/