Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:32:02 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: DoS with POSIX file locks? |
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:52:39PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Things look fairly straightforward if the accounting is done in > files_struct instead of task_struct. At least for POSIX locks. I > haven't looked at flocks or leases yet.
I was thinking that would work, yes. It might not be worth worrying about accounting for leases/flocks since each process can only have one of those per open file anyway.
> steal_locks() might cause problems, but that function should be gotten > rid of anyway.
I quite agree. Now we need to find a better way to solve the problem it papers over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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