netdev - Re: [PATCH] twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int

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Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:33:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, acme@...driva.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:09:21 +0100

> While browsing include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h, I found this buggy definition 
> of twcal_jiffie.
> 
> int         twcal_jiffie;
> 
> I wonder how inet_twdr_twcal_tick() can really works on x86_64
> 
> This seems quite an old bug, it was there before introduction of 
> inet_timewait_death_row made by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
> 
> [PATCH] twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Grrr, good catch Eric.  I'll push this fix to -stable too.

Thanks a lot.
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