Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:19:41 +0100
> Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>>diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c 
>>>b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
>>>index 2909c92..ed3bd0b 100644
>>>--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
>>>+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
>>>@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ static int do_replace(void __user *user, unsigned int 
>>>len)
>>>             return -ENOPROTOOPT;
>>> 
>>>     /* overflow check */
>>>-    if (tmp.size >= (INT_MAX - sizeof(struct xt_table_info)) / NR_CPUS -
>>>+    if (tmp.size >= (INT_MAX - XT_TABLE_INFO_SZ) / NR_CPUS -
>>>                     SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
>>
>>
>>Shouldn't NR_CPUs be replaced by nr_cpu_ids here? I'm wondering
>>why we still include NR_CPUs in the calculation at all though,
>>unlike in 2.4, we don't allocate one huge area of memory anymore
>>but do one allocation per CPU. IIRC it even was you who changed
>>that.
> 
> 
> Yes, doing an allocation per possible cpu was better than one giant 
> allocation (memory savings and NUMA aware)
> 
> Well, technically speaking you are right, we may also replace these 
> divides per NR_CPUS by nr_cpu_ids (or even better : num_possible_cpus())
> 
> Because with NR_CPUS=4096, we actually limit tmp.size to about 524000,
>  what a shame ! :)


We actually had complaints about number of rule limitations, but that
was more likely caused by vmalloc limits :) But of course we do need
to include the number of CPUs in the check, I misread the code.
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