Regex matching in APIs can be a dangerous source of DoS attacks - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS. Unless this is mitigated sensibly, I will continue to resist any cinder patch that adds them.
Glob matches might be safer? On 26 April 2014 05:02, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) <zhangleiqi...@huawei.com> wrote: > Hi, all: > > I see Nova allows search instances by name, ip and ip6 fields which > can be normal string and regular expression: > > [stack@leiqzhang-stack cinder]$ nova help list > > List active servers. > > Optional arguments: > --ip <ip-regexp> Search with regular expression match by > IP address > (Admin only). > --ip6 <ip6-regexp> Search with regular expression match by > IPv6 address > (Admin only). > --name <name-regexp> Search with regular expression match by > name > --instance-name <name-regexp> Search with regular expression > match by server name > (Admin only). > > I think it is also needed for Cinder when query the > volume/snapshot/backup by name. Any advice? > > ---------- > zhangleiqiang (Trump) > > Best Regards > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Duncan Thomas _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
