netdev - netlink: Remove max

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Date:	Fri, 1 May 2015 08:27:59 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: netlink: Remove max_size setting

We currently limit the hash table size to 64K which is very bad
as even 10 years ago it was relatively easy to generate millions
of sockets.

Since the hash table is naturally limited by memory allocation
failure, we don't really need an explicit limit so this patch
removes it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index ec4adbd..daa0b81 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -3139,7 +3139,6 @@ static const struct rhashtable_params netlink_rhashtable_params = {
 	.key_len = netlink_compare_arg_len,
 	.obj_hashfn = netlink_hash,
 	.obj_cmpfn = netlink_compare,
-	.max_size = 65536,
 	.automatic_shrinking = true,
 };
 
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