The sanity check (timeout < 0) never works; the dividend is unsigned and so is the division, which should have been a signed division. long timeout = (ct->timeout.expires - jiffies) / HZ; if (timeout < 0) timeout = 0; This patch converts the time values to signed for the division. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index b697777..257e772 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ nla_put_failure: static inline int ctnetlink_dump_timeout(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nf_conn *ct) { - long timeout = (ct->timeout.expires - jiffies) / HZ; + long timeout = ((long)ct->timeout.expires - (long)jiffies) / HZ; if (timeout < 0) timeout = 0; @@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ ctnetlink_exp_dump_expect(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp) { struct nf_conn *master = exp->master; - long timeout = (exp->timeout.expires - jiffies) / HZ; + long timeout = ((long)exp->timeout.expires - (long)jiffies) / HZ; struct nf_conn_help *help; if (timeout < 0) -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html