netdev - Re: rhashtable: Add cap on number of elements in hash table

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:12:24 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, johannes@...solutions.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net, johannes.berg@...el.com
Subject: Re: rhashtable: Add cap on number of elements in hash table

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
>
> Which users are you talking about? Both Netlink and TIPC still
> have an upper limit. nft sets are controlled by privileged users.

There is no limit in netlink apart from UINT_MAX AFAICS.  Allowing
UINT_MAX entries into a hash table limited to 64K is not a good
thing.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html