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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

include/linux/rhashtable.h

@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ struct rhashtable_params {
  * @nelems: Number of elements in table
  * @key_len: Key length for hashfn
  * @p: Configuration parameters
+ * @max_elems: Maximum number of elements in table
  * @rhlist: True if this is an rhltable
  * @run_work: Deferred worker to expand/shrink asynchronously
  * @mutex: Mutex to protect current/future table swapping
@@ -165,6 +166,7 @@ struct rhashtable {
 	atomic_t			nelems;
 	unsigned int			key_len;
 	struct rhashtable_params	p;
+	unsigned int			max_elems;
 	bool				rhlist;
 	struct work_struct		run_work;
 	struct mutex                    mutex;
@@ -327,8 +329,7 @@ static inline bool rht_grow_above_100(const struct rhashtable *ht,
 static inline bool rht_grow_above_max(const struct rhashtable *ht,
 				      const struct bucket_table *tbl)
 {
-	return ht->p.max_size &&
-	       (atomic_read(&ht->nelems) / 2u) >= ht->p.max_size;
+	return atomic_read(&ht->nelems) >= ht->max_elems;
 }
 
 /* The bucket lock is selected based on the hash and protects mutations

lib/rhashtable.c

@@ -961,6 +961,11 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
 	if (params->max_size)
 		ht->p.max_size = rounddown_pow_of_two(params->max_size);
 
+	/* Cap total entries at 2^31 to avoid nelems overflow. */
+	ht->max_elems = 1u << 31;
+	if (ht->p.max_size < ht->max_elems / 2)
+		ht->max_elems = ht->p.max_size * 2;
+
 	ht->p.min_size = max(ht->p.min_size, HASH_MIN_SIZE);
 
 	if (params->nelem_hint)