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

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Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:04:01 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: rhashtable: Add cap on number of elements in hash table

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 09:01:10AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> > As allowing >100% utilisation is potentially dangerous, the name
> > contains the word insecure.
> 
> Not sure I get this. So rhashtable is trying to actually never have
> collisions? How could that possibly work?

Of course it's not to eliminate collisions, but to limit the chain
length to something reasonable.  Using a hashtable at >100% capacity
is usually not reasonable.

> Since you're also doing what I did here, would it make sense to apply my
> patch to net and this one only to net-next?

That would make af_netlink a security hole again because you can now
add unlimited entries to a hash table limited to 64K entries.  Prior
to the rhashtable conversion you weren't allowed to have more than
64K entries in the table.  This was lost in the conversion and I was
trying to restore it.

> For my use case (which was testing/debug) I don't actually care that
> much, but perhaps that'd be an easier sell towards the end of the merge
> window :) It seems that my patch would mostly fix the *issue*, while
> yours actually adds a new parameter that's also not actually used yet.

Well if my patch is too complex then sure we can look at coming up
with a simpler fix but I think we need something that does not let
you add unlimited entries to af_netlink.

Cheers,
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