Peter Moulder has pointed out that there is a slight chance that a negative value might be passed to jiffies_to_msecs() in ata_scsi_park_show(). This is fixed by saving the value of jiffies in a local variable, thus also reducing code since the volatile variable jiffies is accessed only once. Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Applies to your upstream branch. drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c index fccd5e4..e1f916f 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static ssize_t ata_scsi_park_show(struct device *device, struct ata_port *ap; struct ata_link *link; struct ata_device *dev; - unsigned long flags; + unsigned long flags, now; unsigned int uninitialized_var(msecs); int rc = 0; @@ -208,10 +208,11 @@ static ssize_t ata_scsi_park_show(struct device *device, } link = dev->link; + now = jiffies; if (ap->pflags & ATA_PFLAG_EH_IN_PROGRESS && link->eh_context.unloaded_mask & (1 << dev->devno) && - time_after(dev->unpark_deadline, jiffies)) - msecs = jiffies_to_msecs(dev->unpark_deadline - jiffies); + time_after(dev->unpark_deadline, now)) + msecs = jiffies_to_msecs(dev->unpark_deadline - now); else msecs = 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html