Re: local denial-of-service with file leases

[Avi Kivity]

Chris Wright wrote:

> * Avi Kivity (avi@xxxxxxxxxx) 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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