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rhashtable: Enforce minimum size on initial hash table
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William Hua <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I wasn't aware there was an enforced minimum size. I simply set the
> nelem_hint in the rhastable_params struct to 1, expecting it to grow as
> needed. This caused a segfault afterwards when trying to insert an
> element.

OK we're doing the size computation before we enforce the limit
on min_size.

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We need to do the initial hash table size computation after we
have obtained the correct min_size/max_size parameters.  Otherwise
we may end up with a hash table whose size is outside the allowed
envelope.

Fixes: a998f71 ("rhashtable: Round up/down min/max_size to...")
Reported-by: William Hua <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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herbertx authored and davem330 committed Dec 16, 2015
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions lib/rhashtable.c
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Expand Up @@ -738,9 +738,6 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
if (params->nulls_base && params->nulls_base < (1U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT))
return -EINVAL;

if (params->nelem_hint)
size = rounded_hashtable_size(params);

memset(ht, 0, sizeof(*ht));
mutex_init(&ht->mutex);
spin_lock_init(&ht->lock);
Expand All @@ -760,6 +757,9 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,

ht->p.min_size = max(ht->p.min_size, HASH_MIN_SIZE);

if (params->nelem_hint)
size = rounded_hashtable_size(&ht->p);

/* The maximum (not average) chain length grows with the
* size of the hash table, at a rate of (log N)/(log log N).
* The value of 16 is selected so that even if the hash
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