[NET] linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around The test used in the linkwatch does not handle wrap-arounds correctly. Since the intention of the code is to eliminate bursts of messages we can afford to delay things up to a second. Using that fact we can easily handle wrap-arounds by making sure that we don't delay things by more than one second. This is based on diagnosis and a patch by Stefan Rompf. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/link_watch.c b/net/core/link_watch.c index 341de44..646937c 100644 --- a/net/core/link_watch.c +++ b/net/core/link_watch.c
@@ -170,13 +170,13 @@ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lweventlist_lock, flags); if (!test_and_set_bit(LW_RUNNING, &linkwatch_flags)) { - unsigned long thisevent = jiffies; + unsigned long delay = linkwatch_nextevent - jiffies; - if (thisevent >= linkwatch_nextevent) { + /* If we wrap around we'll delay it by at most HZ. */ + if (!delay || delay > HZ) schedule_work(&linkwatch_work); - } else { - schedule_delayed_work(&linkwatch_work, linkwatch_nextevent - thisevent); - } + else + schedule_delayed_work(&linkwatch_work, delay); } } }