netdev - Re: [net PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Drop suffix update from resize code

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:28:46 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     rshearma@...cade.com
Cc:     alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Drop suffix update from resize code

From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:05:18 +0000

> On 01/12/16 12:27, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> It has been reported that update_suffix can be expensive when it is
>> called
>> on a large node in which most of the suffix lengths are the same.  The
>> time
>> required to add 200K entries had increased from around 3 seconds to
>> almost
>> 49 seconds.
>>
>> In order to address this we need to move the code for updating the
>> suffix
>> out of resize and instead just have it handled in the cases where we
>> are
>> pushing a node that increases the suffix length, or will decrease the
>> suffix length.
>>
>> Fixes: 5405afd1a306 ("fib_trie: Add tracking value for suffix length")
>> Reported-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> 
> $ time sudo ip route restore < ~/allroutes
> RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> RTNETLINK answers: File exists

What are these errors all about?