Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762125AbXFRK4T (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:56:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760452AbXFRK4I (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:56:08 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu ([212.108.200.82]:42358 "EHLO mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759723AbXFRK4F (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:56:05 -0400 To: davem@davemloft.net CC: tgraf@suug.ch, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20070618.035144.64026005.davem@davemloft.net> (message from David Miller on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:51:44 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX References: <20070618103241.GX521@postel.suug.ch> <20070618104059.GY521@postel.suug.ch> <20070618.035144.64026005.davem@davemloft.net> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:55:24 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 18 > > but it's not as if it's really going to affect performance > > in real cases. > > Since these circumstances are creatable by any user, we have > to consider the cases caused by malicious entities. OK. But then the whole gc thing is already broken, since a user can DoS socket creation/destruction. I'm all for fixing this gc mess that we have now. But please don't expect me to be the one who's doing it. Miklos - 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/