netdev - Re: rhashtable - Cap total number of entries to 2^31

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:13:05 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: rhashtable - Cap total number of entries to 2^31

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:11:34PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
>
> > +	/* Cap total entries at 2^31 to avoid nelems overflow. */
> > +	ht->max_elems = 1u << 31;
> > +	if (ht->p.max_size < ht->max_elems / 2)
> > +		ht->max_elems = ht->p.max_size * 2;
> > +
> 
> Looks like instead of adding this max_elems you could instead have fixed this via
> 
> if (!ht->p.max_size)
> 	ht->p.max_size = INT_MAX / 2;
> 
> if (ht->p.max_size > INT_MAX / 2)
> 	return -EINVAL;

No that doesn't do the same thing.  Setting max_size caps the table
size and I don't want to do that at all.

Cheers,
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