[dpdk-dev] problem vhost-user sockets
Pavel Fedin
p.fedin at samsung.com
Tue Dec 15 15:21:25 CET 2015
Hello!
> I'm thinking you can't simply unlink a file given by a user inside
> a libraray unconditionaly. Say, what if a user gives a wrong socket
> path?
Well... We can improve the security by checking that:
a) The file exists and it's a socket.
b) Nobody is listening on it.
> I normally write a short script to handle it automatically.
I know, you can always hack up some kludges, just IMHO it's not production-grade solution. What if you are cloud administrator, and
you have 1000 users, each of them using 100 vhost-user interfaces? List all of them in some script? Too huge job, i would say.
And without it the thing just appears to be too fragile, requiring manual maintenance after a single stupid failure.
Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
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