netdev - [PATCH 3/3] rxrpc: Fix _usecs_to_jiffies() by using usecs_to

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Date:   Fri, 24 Sep 2021 03:18:37 +0000
From:   Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com, marc.dionne@...istor.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] rxrpc: Fix _usecs_to_jiffies() by using usecs_to_jiffies()

Directly using _usecs_to_jiffies() might be unsafe, so it's
better to use usecs_to_jiffies() instead.
Because we can see that the result of _usecs_to_jiffies()
could be larger than MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET values without the
check of the input.

Fixes: c410bf01933e ("Fix the excessive initial retransmission timeout")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
---
 net/rxrpc/rtt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/rtt.c b/net/rxrpc/rtt.c
index 4e565ee..be61d6f 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/rtt.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/rtt.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static u32 rxrpc_rto_min_us(struct rxrpc_peer *peer)
 
 static u32 __rxrpc_set_rto(const struct rxrpc_peer *peer)
 {
-	return _usecs_to_jiffies((peer->srtt_us >> 3) + peer->rttvar_us);
+	return usecs_to_jiffies((peer->srtt_us >> 3) + peer->rttvar_us);
 }
 
 static u32 rxrpc_bound_rto(u32 rto)
-- 
2.7.4