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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:04:03 +0000
From:      David Hill <david@phobia.ms>
To:        "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        yar@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/ftpd ftpd.c
Message-ID:  <20011119190403.7cb2020b.david@phobia.ms>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011119165508.75141B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200111192152.fAJLq3N94389@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011119165508.75141B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:00:51 -0500 (EST)
"Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 
> :yar         2001/11/19 13:52:03 PST
> :
> :  Modified files:
> :    libexec/ftpd         ftpd.c 
> :  Log:
> :  Eliminate another instance of the old and well-known
> :  DoS bug that the select(2)/accept(2) pair is called on
> :  a socket that is in the blocking I/O mode.  The bug is
> :  triggered if a selected connection dies before the accept(2)
> :  leading to the accept(2) blocking virtually forever.
> :  
> :  MFC after:      1 week
> :  
> :  Revision  Changes    Path
> :  1.87      +25 -7     src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c
> 
> Just as a thought, since I've noted the ftpd mucking, there are two issues
> with the ftp daemon code that are not necesarily critical, but should be
> changed:
>   - Dynamically allocate the fd_set bit arrays
>   - Correct usage of signal handlers to only use set/check flags.
> 
> Got anymore motivation to tackle those? 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> --
> Andrew R. Reiter
> arr@watson.org
> arr@FreeBSD.org
> 
> 
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How about switching ftpd to use kqueue?

- David

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