svn commit: r192463 - head/sys/fs/nfsserver

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri May 22 15:34:23 UTC 2009


John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
> What about a malicious denial-of-service attack where a malicious client 
> initiates an endless stream of connection attempts to force a panic?  I think 
> that is where the concern lies.  I'm sure a malicious client could do it 
> intentionally in less than 136 years, perhaps on the order of seconds and/or 
> minutes? :)

Not quite - 49 days at 1,000 requests per second.  I agree that it's
very unlikely, but the idea of a cpu_reboot() just rubs me the wrong
way.

We're painting bikesheds here, though.

DES
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