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author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2017-04-27 13:44:51 +0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-04-27 11:48:24 -0400 |
commit | 6d684e54690caef45cf14051ddeb7c71beeb681b (patch) | |
tree | 1544faf80a19bf2fa47d9f2a1e5f2f98dbb17545 /samples | |
parent | 4b726e81dab2cefefd2c1cb00e3074ac0eec4b15 (diff) | |
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rhashtable: Cap total number of entries to 2^31
When max_size is not set or if it set to a sufficiently large
value, the nelems counter can overflow. This would cause havoc
with the automatic shrinking as it would then attempt to fit a
huge number of entries into a tiny hash table.
This patch fixes this by adding max_elems to struct rhashtable
to cap the number of elements. This is set to 2^31 as nelems is
not a precise count. This is sufficiently smaller than UINT_MAX
that it should be safe.
When max_size is set max_elems will be lowered to at most twice
max_size as is the status quo.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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