net-rps: fixes for rps flow limit
Caught by sparse: - __rcu: missing annotation to sd->flow_limit - __user: direct access in cpumask_scnprintf Also - add endline character when printing bitmap if room in buffer - avoid bucket overflow by reducing FLOW_LIMIT_HISTORY The last item warrants some explanation. The hashtable buckets are subject to overflow if FLOW_LIMIT_HISTORY is larger than or equal to bucket size, since all packets may end up in a single bucket. The current (rather arbitrary) history value of 256 happens to match the buffer size (u8). As a result, with a single flow, the first 128 packets are accepted (correct), the second 128 packets dropped (correct) and then the history[] array has filled, so that each subsequent new packet causes an increment in the bucket for new_flow plus a decrement for old_flow: a steady state. This is fine if packets are dropped, as the steady state goes away as soon as a mix of traffic reappears. But, because the 256th packet overflowed the bucket to 0: no packets are dropped. Instead of explicitly adding an overflow check, this patch changes FLOW_LIMIT_HISTORY to never be able to overflow a single bucket. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> (first item) Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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