Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 1999 01:11:20 -0800 | From | Scott Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Patch for DoS attack in ipc/msg.c |
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(Sorry; I neglected to CC the list on the previous copy.)
Andi Kleen wrote:
> I think the correct fix would be to charge headers fully too. That is > how networking does it.
I thought of doing it that way, but I'm paranoid about backward compatibility. That change would break existing code that assumes that a certain number of messages will fit in a queue.
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