Re: local denial-of-service with file leases

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no) wrote:
> 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.

OK, I tested with Avi's test program, and a couple other's I cobbled
together, and they seem to work fine.  But didn't test the samba case
(shouldn't be different...but...).  BTW, the bit below looks like
debugging code.  It's a way for users to spam the kernel log (granted
there is some bit of throttling):

thanks,
-chris
--

Remove time_out_leases() printk that's easily triggered by users.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -1105,7 +1105,6 @@ static void time_out_leases(struct inode
 			before = &fl->fl_next;
 			continue;
 		}
-		printk(KERN_INFO "lease broken - owner pid = %d\n", fl->fl_pid);
 		lease_modify(before, fl->fl_type & ~F_INPROGRESS);
 		if (fl == *before)	/* lease_modify may have freed fl */
 			before = &fl->fl_next;



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