Commit 76506a986dc31394fd1f2741db037d29c7e57843 (IPv6: fix DESYNC_FACTOR) introduced a buggy check for underflow of tmp_prefered_lft. tmp_prefered_lft is unsigned, so the condition is always false.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbo...@suse.cz> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> Fixes: 76506a986dc3 ("IPv6: fix DESYNC_FACTOR") diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index cc7c26d..7a043a4 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ static int ipv6_create_tempaddr(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, struct inet6_ifaddr *i tmp_prefered_lft = idev->cnf.temp_prefered_lft + age - idev->desync_factor; /* guard against underflow in case of concurrent updates to cnf */ - if (unlikely(tmp_prefered_lft < 0)) + if (unlikely((long)tmp_prefered_lft < 0)) tmp_prefered_lft = 0; tmp_prefered_lft = min_t(__u32, ifp->prefered_lft, tmp_prefered_lft); tmp_plen = ifp->prefix_len;