On Mar 13, 4:12pm, [email protected] ("J. Hannken-Illjes") wrote: -- Subject: Re: DoS attack against TCP services
| > Can't it just try to acquire the lock and if it fails it spams, and | > does not deadlock? Or even better, finds the driver that blocks it, | > and bumps its timeout? It is annoying to have a monitoring service | > DoS the whole machine... | | Suppose sysmon should use a second mutex for workqueue management only. | | This way it should be possible to detect a non-empty workqueue, | print a message and stop adding new work. That's a good idea. Do you want to do it, or should I put it in my infinite TODO list? :-) christos
