[Dnsmasq-discuss] excessive file descriptor usage after upgrading to 2.81

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Fri Oct 16 06:37:07 BST 2020


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:47:44PM +0000, WU, CHRIS wrote:
> Hello. We've been using Dnsmasq version 2.78 for quite a while but
> upgraded to 2.81 because of CVE-2019-14834. Upon inspecting the output
> of lsof we realized that Dnsmasq is using almost 200 file descriptors
> upon boot and after an hour later the number remains unchanged. Since
> I knew this did not happen with 2.78 I also tried Dnsmasq versions
> 2.79 and 2.80 and this does not happen. It looks like it started with
> 2.81 and also happens with 2.82.
> My operating environment is armv7l GNU/Linux.
> 

Looking forward to what  `git bisect` says.


Regards
Geert Stappers
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