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[PKT_SCHED]: Potential jiffy wrap bug in dev_watchdog().

There is a potential jiffy wraparound bug in the transmit watchdog
that is easily avoided by using time_after().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemminger 19 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 4 2
      net/sched/sch_generic.c

+ 4 - 2
net/sched/sch_generic.c

@@ -193,8 +193,10 @@ static void dev_watchdog(unsigned long arg)
 		    netif_running(dev) &&
 		    netif_carrier_ok(dev)) {
 			if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) &&
-			    (jiffies - dev->trans_start) > dev->watchdog_timeo) {
-				printk(KERN_INFO "NETDEV WATCHDOG: %s: transmit timed out\n", dev->name);
+			    time_after(jiffies, dev->trans_start + dev->watchdog_timeo)) {
+
+				printk(KERN_INFO "NETDEV WATCHDOG: %s: transmit timed out\n",
+				       dev->name);
 				dev->tx_timeout(dev);
 			}
 			if (!mod_timer(&dev->watchdog_timer, jiffies + dev->watchdog_timeo))