[PATCH net 5/6] rxrpc: Fix resend event time calculation

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Mar 27 2018 - 18:44:52 EST


From: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Commit a158bdd3 ("rxrpc: Fix call timeouts") reworked the time calculation
for the next resend event. For this calculation, "oldest" will be before
"now", so ktime_sub(oldest, now) will yield a negative value. When passed
to nsecs_to_jiffies which expects an unsigned value, the end result will be
a very large value, and a resend event scheduled far into the future. This
could cause calls to stall if some packets were lost.

Fix by ordering the arguments to ktime_sub correctly.

Fixes: a158bdd3247b ("rxrpc: Fix call timeouts")
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

net/rxrpc/call_event.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/call_event.c b/net/rxrpc/call_event.c
index 27f77b7d0ead..87ec697ca117 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/call_event.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/call_event.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static void rxrpc_resend(struct rxrpc_call *call, unsigned long now_j)
ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(skb->tstamp, max_age)));
}

- resend_at = nsecs_to_jiffies(ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(oldest, now)));
+ resend_at = nsecs_to_jiffies(ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(now, oldest)));
resend_at += jiffies + rxrpc_resend_timeout;
WRITE_ONCE(call->resend_at, resend_at);