netdev - Re: [v3 PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: rhashtable with duplicate objects

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:44:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch, tom@...bertland.com,
        greearb@...delatech.com
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: rhashtable with duplicate objects

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:32:12 +0200

> On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 13:03 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 18:58 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> > 
>> > v3 fixes a bug in the remove path that causes the element count
>> > to decrease when it shouldn't, leading to a gigantic hash table
>> > when it underflows.
>> > 
>> Ok, with the BUG_ON() thrown in, this works in the test that was
>> failing before. I'll run the entire suite again over lunch.
>> 
> 
> Ok, the entire test suite passed (with the BUG_ON, but hey).
> 
> Dave, let me know what you want to do (or have done, as it may be).

I'll apply this directly to net-next and push it out after some
build testing.

Thanks guys.