>>>>> " " == Michael Riepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is an inode leak in lockd, caused by a reference counting
> bug. It will appear when you use DOS/Windows clients to access
> a knfsd+lockd based NFS server, and it will crash the server
> sooner or later (a DOS attack, literally ;). The lockd bug is
> still alive in 2.4.0-test?, so upgrading doesn't help either.
> I'll attach my patch for 2.2.16. It should apply to
> 2.4.0-test? too, with one or two lines of fuzz maybe.
Hi Michael,
Your patch does not seem correct to me. IMO you should rather be
calling nlm_release_file() in both cases where you applied
'put_file()'.
Cheers,
Trond
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