Re: local denial-of-service with file leases

Chris Wright wrote:

* Avi Kivity ([email protected]) wrote:
the following program will oom a the 2.6.14.1 kernel, running as anordinary user:
I don't have a good mechanism for testing leases, but this should fix
the leak.  Mind testing?

the test program of course passes, but now samba hangs when reading afile (mount -t cifs from the same machine). 2.6.14.1 reads the file butleaks memory.


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