Subject: Re: local denial-of-service with file leases
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:25:27 -0500
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On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:35 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no) wrote:
> > Bruce has a simpler patch (see attachment). The call to fasync_helper()
> > in order to free active structures will have already been done in
> > locks_delete_lock(), so in principle, all we want to do is to skip the
> > fasync_helper() call in fcntl_setlease().
> 
> Yes, that's better, thanks.  Will you make sure it gets to Linus?

Sure, but I'd like a mail from Avi confirming that this patch too fixes
his problem, please.

Cheers,
  Trond

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