Re: DoS attack against TCP services

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 13,  4:12pm, hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost ("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