Btrfs: Send/receive and ioctl()
Btrfs: Send/receive and ioctl()
Posted Jan 27, 2014 8:15 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)In reply to: Btrfs: Send/receive and ioctl() by ofranja
Parent article: Btrfs: Send/receive and ioctl()
>/*
> * there are many ways the trans_start and trans_end ioctls can lead
> * to deadlocks. They should only be used by applications that
> * basically own the machine, and have a very in depth understanding
> * of all the possible deadlocks and enospc problems.
> */
> * there are many ways the trans_start and trans_end ioctls can lead
> * to deadlocks. They should only be used by applications that
> * basically own the machine, and have a very in depth understanding
> * of all the possible deadlocks and enospc problems.
> */
Yeah. Looks like a nice attack vector for DoS :)