netdev - Re: [v2 PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: rhashtable with duplicate objects

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Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:50:34 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        tom@...bertland.com, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: rhashtable with duplicate objects

On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 17:34 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have a feeling there's a bug with ht->nelems, since the crash is
> > always in the grow worker, but I haven't quite put my finger on it
> > yet.
> 
> Can you show me a stack trace?
> 
The stack trace is useless, but my other annotation showed that the
table's nelems *underflowed* to -1, so now the worker will continue to
try to grow it forever.

johannes