Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:58:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [patch] af_unix fix for a panic a DoS and a memory leak [Re: |
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > >I see... but what to do then? We did not remove syn skb and not yet > > What do you mean with "what to do then"? > > Excuse but my bad English is hurting my understanding again. > > Yesterday night I tried heavily unix-domain-sockets with a threded proggy > written exactly for this purpose by me. There's been no problem so far and > I think there are no SMP races in the af_unix code.
Yep. Except that your patch kills a lot of software relying on the old behaviour of connect() in AF_UNIX. What do you think of blocking close()?
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