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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:05:38 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
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Subject: Re: local denial-of-service with file leases
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Chris Wright wrote:

>* Avi Kivity (avi@argo.co.il) wrote:
>  
>
>>the following program will oom a the 2.6.14.1 kernel, running as an 
>>ordinary 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 a 
file (mount -t cifs from the same machine). 2.6.14.1 reads the file but 
leaks memory.

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