linux/net/netlink
Daniel Borkmann 7f19fc5e0b netlink: use jhash as hashfn for rhashtable
For netlink, we shouldn't be using arch_fast_hash() as a hashing
discipline, but rather jhash() instead.

Since netlink sockets can be opened by any user, a local attacker
would be able to easily create collisions with the DPDK-derived
arch_fast_hash(), which trades off performance for security by
using crc32 CPU instructions on x86_64.

While it might have a legimite use case in other places, it should
be avoided in netlink context, though. As rhashtable's API is very
flexible, we could later on still decide on other hashing disciplines,
if legitimate.

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1844123
Fixes: e341694e3e ("netlink: Convert netlink_lookup() to use RCU protected hash table")
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-10 15:17:45 -05:00
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Kconfig netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig 2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
Makefile netlink: Diag core and basic socket info dumping (v2) 2013-03-21 12:38:03 -04:00
af_netlink.c netlink: use jhash as hashfn for rhashtable 2014-12-10 15:17:45 -05:00
af_netlink.h netlink: hold nl_sock_hash_lock during diag dump 2014-08-06 19:17:44 -07:00
diag.c netlink: hold nl_sock_hash_lock during diag dump 2014-08-06 19:17:44 -07:00
genetlink.c genetlink: remove superfluous assignment 2014-06-02 10:36:18 -07:00