netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Restart rt_intern_hash after emergency rebuild (v2)

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]

Message-ID: <20100325131721.GA17675@shamino.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:17:21 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Restart rt_intern_hash after emergency rebuild
 (v2)

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:51:22AM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> The the rebuild changes the genid which in turn is used at
> the hash calculation. Thus if we don't restart and go on with
> inserting the rt will happen in wrong chain.
> 
> (Fixed Neil's comment about the index passed into the rt_intern_hash)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Thanks!  I think this is pretty reasonable.
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

--
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