Re: Patch for DoS attack in ipc/msg.c

Scott Maxwell (s-max@pacbell.net)
Tue, 02 Nov 1999 01:11:20 -0800


(Sorry; I neglected to CC the list on the previous copy.)

Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think the correct fix would be to charge headers fully too. That is
> how networking does it.

I thought of doing it that way, but I'm paranoid about backward
compatibility. That change would break existing code that assumes that
a certain number of messages will fit in a queue.

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