Re: [Qemu-devel] NBD TLS support in QEMU

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:02:18AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> [Cc: to nbd-general list added]
> 
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Besides QEMU, the userspace NBD tools (http://nbd.sf.net/) can also be
> > extended to support TLS.  In this case the kernel needs a localhost
> > socket and userspace handles TLS.
> 
> That introduces a possibility for a deadlock, since now your network
> socket isn't on the PF_MEMALLOC-protected socket anymore, which will
> cause the kernel to throw away packets which are needed for your nbd
> connection, in hopes of clearing some memory.

Understood but there are plenty of use cases where this doesn't matter.

Stefan

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