alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure if ksmbd still makes all that much sense. A user-space daemon can saturate almost any network link using a single CPU core. And the attack surface... if you control ksmbd, you immediately own the machine.
I'm not sure if ksmbd still makes all that much sense. A user-space daemon can saturate almost any network link using a single CPU core. And the attack surface... if you control ksmbd, you immediately own the machine.
> A user-space daemon can saturate almost any network link using a single CPU core.
Certainly not a guarantee at today's link speeds. We're increasingly leaning into RDMA and other forms of offloading for a reason.