Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-11 Thread Michael Jones
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 1:19 AM Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > Hi, > > > rpcd crashes for me daily, to the point where i have a script that > restarts it > > every 5 minutes. > > > > It also gets hung a lot without crashing, and stops serving responses to > ubus > > traffic. > > I've never heard about a

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-05 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
Hi, > rpcd crashes for me daily, to the point where i have a script that restarts it > every 5 minutes. > > It also gets hung a lot without crashing, and stops serving responses to ubus > traffic. I've never heard about anything like that until now, not even in the forum or IRC chatter. Getting

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-05 Thread Michael Jones
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:41 PM Petr Štetiar wrote: > > > Mar 5, 2020 19:54:49 Michael Jones : > > > The flip side here is that rpcd likes to crash a lot. > > 0 (zero) bugs found https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?string=rpcd Saying there are zero bugs on a bug tracker where issues go to be igno

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-05 Thread Petr Štetiar
Mar 5, 2020 19:54:49 Michael Jones : > The flip side here is that rpcd likes to crash a lot. 0 (zero) bugs found https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?string=rpcd > By preventing automatic restarts, you're all but ensuring that users will > experience denial-of-service, even in the absence of m

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-05 Thread Michael Jones
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:35 AM Petr Štetiar wrote: > Karl Palsson [2020-03-05 11:18:02]: > > > > Commit 432ec292ccc8 ("rpcd: add respawn param") has introduced > > > infinite restarting of the service which could be reached over > > > network. > > > > Didn't we already decide that this wasn't th

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-05 Thread Petr Štetiar
Karl Palsson [2020-03-05 11:18:02]: > > Commit 432ec292ccc8 ("rpcd: add respawn param") has introduced > > infinite restarting of the service which could be reached over > > network. > > Didn't we already decide that this wasn't the case? < jow> ubus itself has no network transport < jow> it i

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-05 Thread Karl Palsson
Petr Štetiar wrote: > Commit 432ec292ccc8 ("rpcd: add respawn param") has introduced > infinite restarting of the service which could be reached over > network. Didn't we already decide that this wasn't the case? This is not recommended security practice as it might > give potential adversar

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] rpcd: fix respawn settings

2020-03-05 Thread Petr Štetiar
Commit 432ec292ccc8 ("rpcd: add respawn param") has introduced infinite restarting of the service which could be reached over network. This is not recommended security practice as it might give potential adversary infinite number of tries in case there might be some issue in the rpcd or its surroun