Comment 17 for bug 1196932
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| John Dickinson (notmyname) wrote Re: Possibly DoS attack using object tombstones | #17 |
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Whoops. Further discovery has revealed that the listdir that matters (line 216 of obj/server.py) is not in a threadpool. This means threadpools don't help.
I vote for keeping this a security issue because it would allow an attacker to hang a storage node (as Peter described with DELETEs and GETs) or to cause replication and general cluster performance issues by creating so many filesystem objects.