This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tipc: Fix recognition of trial period to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tipc-fix-recognition-of-trial-period.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4c3988bc65462ed6f9f89d75b584cd2e07bbe9cc Author: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 10 15:46:13 2022 +1300 tipc: Fix recognition of trial period [ Upstream commit 28be7ca4fcfd69a2d52aaa331adbf9dbe91f9e6e ] The trial period exists until jiffies is after addr_trial_end. But as jiffies will eventually overflow, just using time_after will eventually give incorrect results. As the node address is set once the trial period ends, this can be used to know that we are not in the trial period. Fixes: e415577f57f4 ("tipc: correct discovery message handling during address trial period") Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/tipc/discover.c b/net/tipc/discover.c index da69e1abf68f..e8630707901e 100644 --- a/net/tipc/discover.c +++ b/net/tipc/discover.c @@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ static bool tipc_disc_addr_trial_msg(struct tipc_discoverer *d, { struct net *net = d->net; struct tipc_net *tn = tipc_net(net); - bool trial = time_before(jiffies, tn->addr_trial_end); u32 self = tipc_own_addr(net); + bool trial = time_before(jiffies, tn->addr_trial_end) && !self; if (mtyp == DSC_TRIAL_FAIL_MSG) { if (!trial)