[quicwg/base-drafts] Deadlocks, and how to avoid them (#3458)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Fri, 14 February 2020 00:29 UTC

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Much belated, this attempts to address the concerns about deadlocking.
Basically, this says that you should avoid instructions that don&#39;t have
flow control credit.  It doesn&#39;t say how an encoder might learn what
limits are, but we&#39;ve seen a range of tactics being used in
implementations and I don&#39;t want to get into transport API debates.

This doesn&#39;t cover the memory exhaustion attack that @kazuho suggests on
the issue; I think that is better covered more generally by the
connection-level flow control limits.

Closes #1420.
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  https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/3458

-- Commit Summary --

  * Deadlocks, and how to avoid them

-- File Changes --

    M draft-ietf-quic-qpack.md (20)

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https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/3458.patch
https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/3458.diff

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