Re: [PATCH] nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 06:56:33PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Recently, syzbot started to abuse NBD with all kinds of sockets.
> > 
> > Commit cf1b2326b734 ("nbd: verify socket is supported during setup")
> > made sure the socket supported a shutdown() method.
> > 
> > Explicitely accept TCP and UNIX stream sockets.
> 
> Note that running nbd server and client on same machine is not safe in
> read-write mode. It may deadlock under low memory conditions.
> 
> Thus I'm not sure if we should accept UNIX sockets.

Both nbd-client and nbdkit have modes where they can mlock themselves
into RAM.

Rich.

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