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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:51:46 +0000
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred expansion/shrinking
Am 17. Januar 2015 09:32:28 GMT+00:00, schrieb Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>:
>On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:06:21AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>> Resizing might also fail because of memory allocation problems, but
>> I'd argue that its better to continue with a non-optimal sized table
>> and retry later than to completely fail, at least unless the API
>> user has explicitly requested this behaviour.
>>
>> As for the element counter, yeah, it should prevent overflow. In that
>> case I agree that failing insertion is the easiest solution.
>
>Well you have to consider the security aspect. These days root-
>only is no longer an acceptable excuse given things like namespaces.
>
>If you don't fail the insertions while the expansion is ongoing,
>and assuming a dump can postpone expansions, then you can essentially
>insert entries into the hash table at will which is an easy DoS
>attack.
I agree, however at least in the case of nftables you can easily do the same thing by adding millions of rules.
It doesn't make things worse.
>Note that you don't have to fail the insertion right away. I
>think waiting until you reach max * 2 would be fine.
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