Re: Algoritmic Complexity Attacks and 2.4.20 the dcache code

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 01:38:35 EST


From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:30:40 -0700

If the strength reduction situation changes to being properly handled
by gcc for most/all 64-bit arches, include/linux/hash.h can lose a #ifdef.

It's not a strength reduction issue, it's about not setting the
multiply cost properly in the machine description.
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