Hi! > From: Roman Mashak <[email protected]> > > [ Upstream commit b15e62631c5f19fea9895f7632dae9c1b27fe0cd ] > > When a new action is installed, firstuse field of 'tcf_t' is explicitly set > to 0. Value of zero means "new action, not yet used"; as a packet hits the > action, 'firstuse' is stamped with the current jiffies value. > > tcf_tm_dump() should return 0 for firstuse if action has not yet been hit.
> @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ static inline void tcf_tm_dump(struct tcf_t *dtm, const
> struct tcf_t *stm)
> {
> dtm->install = jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->install);
> dtm->lastuse = jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->lastuse);
> - dtm->firstuse = jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->firstuse);
> + dtm->firstuse = stm->firstuse ?
> + jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->firstuse) : 0;
> dtm->expires = jiffies_to_clock_t(stm->expires);
> }
Jiffies start at small negative value (and are expected to overflow
periodically). This code will not work correctly in that case.
Best regards,
Pavel
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