From 9261c9b042547d01eeb206cf0e21ce72832245ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:51:39 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Make sure l_linger is unsigned to avoid negative timeouts One of my x86_64 (linux 2.6.13) server log is filled with : schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff06 from ffffffff802e63ca This is because some application does a struct linger li; li.l_onoff = 1; li.l_linger = -1; setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, &li, sizeof(li)); And unfortunatly l_linger is defined as a 'signed int' in include/linux/socket.h: struct linger { int l_onoff; /* Linger active */ int l_linger; /* How long to linger for */ }; I dont know if it's safe to change l_linger to 'unsigned int' in the include file (It might be defined as int in ABI specs) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/sock.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index c13594579bfb1..b32b1815ae5a3 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -341,11 +341,11 @@ set_rcvbuf: sock_reset_flag(sk, SOCK_LINGER); else { #if (BITS_PER_LONG == 32) - if (ling.l_linger >= MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT/HZ) + if ((unsigned int)ling.l_linger >= MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT/HZ) sk->sk_lingertime = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; else #endif - sk->sk_lingertime = ling.l_linger * HZ; + sk->sk_lingertime = (unsigned int)ling.l_linger * HZ; sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_LINGER); } break; -- cgit 1.2.3-korg