[systemd-devel] /run DoS

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 14:22:06 PDT 2011


W dniu 3 kwietnia 2011 23:11 użytkownik Bruno Wolff III
<bruno at wolff.to> napisał:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 23:05:52 +0200,
>  Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Of course it will be the best solution. But I doubt it will happen in
>> a next few weeks - so some temporary workaround for F15 would be
>> appreciated. It seems to me that this is a too serious problem to
>> release F15 without fixing/workarounding it somehow.
>
> tempfs is backed by swap, so this shouldn't be that big of a deal.

I filled free space on /run and I was not able to start services. So I
guess that it might be a problem on some systems. ()

> Local
> users have other ways to try to kill system performance.
>

Yes, but it is not about performance - IMO in some cases it may be
qualified as local DoS.

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Michal

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