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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2014-01-15 06:50:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-02-06 11:08:16 -0800 |
| commit | cd7361dc9fa60c35d011d674d48eababcc3eb767 (patch) | |
| tree | 51c5b5cdfabf829671688e9df26623fa64feb5ea /kernel | |
| parent | 8c035b62e21a2d26c1a5181ee0d27a76c8996be8 (diff) | |
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bpf: do not use reciprocal divide
[ Upstream commit aee636c4809fa54848ff07a899b326eb1f9987a2 ]
At first Jakub Zawadzki noticed that some divisions by reciprocal_divide
were not correct. (off by one in some cases)
http://www.wireshark.org/~darkjames/reciprocal-buggy.c
He could also show this with BPF:
http://www.wireshark.org/~darkjames/set-and-dump-filter-k-bug.c
The reciprocal divide in linux kernel is not generic enough,
lets remove its use in BPF, as it is not worth the pain with
current cpus.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>
Cc: Mircea Gherzan <mgherzan@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dxchgb@gmail.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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