Many AMDGPU & Other DRM Fixes Queued For Linux 4.9

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Many AMDGPU & Other DRM Fixes Queued For Linux 4.9

DRM subsystem maintainer David Airlie submitted on Wednesday quite a number of fixes for the Direct Rendering Manager drivers. There's been fixes queueing up for a while that are now ready to go in after the nasty PAT regression fix has landed...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.9-DRM-Fixes-RC3-RC4

[Vladimir1]

What DDOS?

[pal666]

What DDOS?

distributed dos

[SaucyJack]

distributed dos

Ms-dos for the cloud? Sign me up!

[pal666]

Ms-dos for the cloud? Sign me up!

denial of service

[timofonic]

Ms-dos for the cloud? Sign me up!

The future is NOW...

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=freedos

http://www.pcjs.org

[SaucyJack]

denial of service

Obviously.

[starshipeleven]

What DDOS?

SYN flooding (one of the dumbest forms of DDoS, there are like 10 different countermeasures that grant total protection from it) coming from botnets of devices that were infected because their SSH/telnet password was guessed by bruteforce (i.e. it was total crap) is keeping pinned the Internet connection for the Linux Plumbers Conference, or something like that.

Saying that this shit was preventable is an understatement. The ISPs there are full of fail.

[starshipeleven]

It is impossible to prevent DDOS attacks in an absolute sense because of the uniqueness of atoms from which the attacks are coming. DDOS will always cost at least some CPU time and at least some network bandwidth. The CPUs dealing with stopping a DDOS attack may reside in a server, be part of a network card, may reside in a router, etc.

No it is possible. If the target network (ISP mostly) is set up properly, sending SYN flooding is so ineffective that it's a waste of time.
Result: attack prevented.

also the "prevention" applies to the embedded devices in the botnet launching this attack, because with mildly better security in there the bad guys wouldn't have so much bots to play with.