netdev - [PATCH 1/3] gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:54:42 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gre: used time_before for comparing jiffies

The functions time_before is more robust for comparing
jiffies against other values.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index 0101521..811bef7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static void ipgre_err(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info)
 	if (t->parms.iph.ttl == 0 && type == ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED)
 		goto out;

-	if (jiffies - t->err_time < IPTUNNEL_ERR_TIMEO)
+	if (time_before(jiffies, t->err_time + IPTUNNEL_ERR_TIMEO))
 		t->err_count++;
 	else
 		t->err_count = 1;
@@ -744,7 +744,8 @@ static int ipgre_tunnel_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
net_device *dev)
 #endif

 	if (tunnel->err_count > 0) {
-		if (jiffies - tunnel->err_time < IPTUNNEL_ERR_TIMEO) {
+		if (time_before(jiffies,
+				tunnel->err_time + IPTUNNEL_ERR_TIMEO)) {
 			tunnel->err_count--;

 			dst_link_failure(skb);
-- 
1.5.3.8






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