Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:29:23 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: BIOS question |
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On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, David Fries wrote:
> > In messaFrom owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Sun Jun 30 13:50:12 1996 Received: from orchard.washtenaw.cc.mi.us (orchard.washtenaw.cc.mi.us [198.111.176.4]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA06736 for <linuxkernel@herbie.ucs.indiana.edu>; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:50:12 -0500 Received: from vger.rutgers.edu by orchard.washtenaw.cc.mi.us (8.6.10/2.3) with ESMTP id OAA16562; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:51:26 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <105662-11720>; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:42:45 -0500 From: "A.N.Kuznetsov" <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Message-Id: <199606301841.WAA05066@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Subject: Re: Recipe for disaster To: schenk@cs.toronto.edu (Eric Schenk) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:41:50 +0400 (MSD) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu In-Reply-To: <96Jun30.140332edt.15372@dvp.cs.toronto.edu> from "Eric Schenk" at Jun 30, 96 02:03:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Length: 510 Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk
Hello!
> While I'm writing, I just noticed a posting on comp.os.linux.networking > that complains that you can freeze a linux kernel by opening up > a socket pair and dumping a couple of dozen megabytes of data across it > in one chunk.
Note, that my fix to dev.c will not cure this problem. I was afraid that extensive dropping could break router/bridge, when working on interrupt at peak loads is normal and dropped just ONE packet.
Change break to continue to cure the second problem.
Alexey Kuznetsov.
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