[PATCH 4.3 48/55] rhashtable: Enforce minimum size on initial hash table

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

4.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

[ Upstream commit 3a324606bbabfc30084ce9d08169910773ba9a92 ]

William Hua <william.hua@canonical.com> 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.

---8<---
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: a998f712f77e ("rhashtable: Round up/down min/max_size to...")
Reported-by: William Hua <william.hua@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 lib/rhashtable.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -723,9 +723,6 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *h
 	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);
@@ -745,6 +742,9 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *h
 
 	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