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| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c index 48ca07853068..cc5f66328b47 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c +++ b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c @@ -726,11 +726,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet_unhash); * Note that we use 32bit integers (vs RFC 'short integers') * because 2^16 is not a multiple of num_ephemeral and this * property might be used by clever attacker. - * RFC claims using TABLE_LENGTH=10 buckets gives an improvement, - * we use 256 instead to really give more isolation and - * privacy, this only consumes 1 KB of kernel memory. + * RFC claims using TABLE_LENGTH=10 buckets gives an improvement, though + * attacks were since demonstrated, thus we use 65536 instead to really + * give more isolation and privacy, at the expense of 256kB of kernel + * memory. */ -#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SHIFT 8 +#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SHIFT 16 #define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SIZE (1 << INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SHIFT) static u32 *table_perturb; |