Re: [PATCH 4.19 10/95] net sched: fix reporting the first-time use timestamp

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Hi!

On Mon 2020-06-01 19:53:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Roman Mashak <mrv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit b15e62631c5f19fea9895f7632dae9c1b27fe0cd ]
> 
> When a new action is installed, firstuse field of 'tcf_t' is explicitly set
> to 0. Value of zero means "new action, not yet used"; as a packet hits the
> action, 'firstuse' is stamped with the current jiffies value.
> 
> tcf_tm_dump() should return 0 for firstuse if action has not yet been hit.
> 
> Fixes: 48d8ee1694dd ("net sched actions: aggregate dumping of actions timeinfo")

Jiffies start at small negative value (and are expected to overflow
periodically). This code will not work correctly in that case.

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel
								

> +++ b/include/net/act_api.h
> @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ static inline void tcf_tm_dump(struct tc
>  {
>  	dtm->install = jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->install);
>  	dtm->lastuse = jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->lastuse);
> -	dtm->firstuse = jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->firstuse);
> +	dtm->firstuse = stm->firstuse ?
> +		jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies - stm->firstuse) : 0;
>  	dtm->expires = jiffies_to_clock_t(stm->expires);
>  }
>  
> 

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