netdev - Re: [PATCH net,stable-4.0] cdc_ncm: Fix tx

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Date:	Fri, 22 May 2015 20:48:01 +0200
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Florian Bruhin <me@...-compiler.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net,stable-4.0] cdc_ncm: Fix tx_bytes statistics



On 22 May 2015 19:22:47 CEST, Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 13:15 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> The tx_curr_frame_payload field is u32. When we try to calculate a
>> small negative delta based on it, we end up with a positive integer
>> close to 2^32 instead.  So the tx_bytes pointer increases by about
>> 2^32 for every transmitted frame.
>> 
>> Fix by calculating the delta as a signed long.
>
>Told you I hadn't tested it.


Yes, I know. This was all my bad. Sorry. Didn't mean to imply that you were to blame here. On the contrary. Thanks again for showing how to solve this.


Bjørn

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