From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:11:28 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [NETFILTER]: xt_hashlimit should use time_after_eq()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc6~67^2~15
X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cbebc51f7b77d26ec23145d6ef22ac2b209f7955;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[NETFILTER]: xt_hashlimit should use time_after_eq()

In order to avoid jiffies wraparound and its effect, special care must
be taken
when doing comparisons ...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
index 19103678bf2..2ef44d8560c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static bool select_all(const struct xt_hashlimit_htable *ht,
 static bool select_gc(const struct xt_hashlimit_htable *ht,
 		      const struct dsthash_ent *he)
 {
-	return jiffies >= he->expires;
+	return time_after_eq(jiffies, he->expires);
 }
 
 static void htable_selective_cleanup(struct xt_hashlimit_htable *ht,