> -----Original Message----- > From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 11:35 PM > To: Strösser, Bodo > Cc: linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [nfs-utils] [PATCH 3/3] rpc.mountd: set libtirpc nonblocking mode to avoid > DOS ... > RPC_MAXDATASIZE is 9000. > This number is only relevant on the receive size. > When sending, the "sendsz" passed to svc_tli_create (which default to 64K for > TCP) is used for the 'record size'. > When receiving, any 'record' in a tcp connection which is larger than 9000 > bytes will be rejected. > No message to mountd or statd could ever be that large, so this number > does not impose a problematic limit. Thank you for this explanation. That's what I wanted to but didn't know. Bodo > > As far as I can tell, this patch is safe and is a clear improvement. > > Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > > Thanks, > NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
