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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