From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
jack@suse.cz, 20@madingley.org, marcel@holtmann.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sct@redhat.com,
adilger@clusterfs.com
Subject: Re: Bad ext3/nfs DoS bug
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:27:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C66296.2010109@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17605.33733.51148.46400@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown wrote:
> Putting it another way,
> ext3_get_dentry reject certain inums that are known to be a problem.
> ext2_get_dentry allows only those inums that could possibly be ok.
>
> So if you (anyone) prefer one approach over the other, making the
> change so they both fs take the same approach would be trivial.
I like the 2nd approach - seems simpler, takes care of everything in
->get_dentry, right?. But I think your original patch is all that will
work for 2.4 kernels...
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-25 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 13:01 Bad ext3/nfs DoS bug James
2006-07-17 13:06 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-17 18:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-18 7:55 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-18 14:56 ` James
2006-07-18 15:22 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-18 15:23 ` James
2006-07-18 20:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-19 9:28 ` James
2006-07-19 15:55 ` Jan Kara
2006-07-20 4:46 ` Neil Brown
2006-07-20 16:06 ` Jan Kara
2006-07-20 20:11 ` James
2006-07-21 6:44 ` Neil Brown
2006-07-21 6:39 ` Neil Brown
2006-07-21 14:24 ` Jan Kara
2006-07-22 0:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-22 13:17 ` Theodore Tso
2006-07-25 1:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25 2:21 ` Neil Brown
2006-07-26 17:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-07-26 23:53 ` Neil Brown
2006-07-27 18:32 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-07-27 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-28 0:34 ` Neil Brown
2006-07-28 13:27 ` Peter Staubach
2006-07-28 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-25 2:36 ` Neil Brown
2006-07-25 18:27 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2006-07-21 0:42 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-21 12:29 ` Andrew Morton
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2006-07-22 3:38 linux
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