From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f173.google.com ([209.85.192.173]:53055 "EHLO mail-pd0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbbAPFSJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:18:09 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f173.google.com with SMTP id ft15so20600728pdb.4 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:18:08 -0800 (PST) From: Masashi Honma To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: me@bobcopeland.com, Masashi Honma Subject: [PATCH] mesh: Avoid STA expiration timer truncation to u32 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:17:40 +0900 Message-Id: <1421385460-3126-1-git-send-email-masashi.honma@gmail.com> (sfid-20150116_061833_559228_21852CD5) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On some combination of plink_timeout and HZ, the STA expiration timer will be unexpectedly truncated to u32. Maybe there is a question "Who sets such a large number to plink_timeout ?". At least wpa_supplicant will set 0xffffffff to plink_timeout to disable this timer because wpa_supplicant has it's own expiration mechanism. Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma --- net/mac80211/mesh.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c index 0c8b2a7..bb721a0 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c @@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ static void ieee80211_mesh_housekeeping(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh = &sdata->u.mesh; u32 changed; - ieee80211_sta_expire(sdata, ifmsh->mshcfg.plink_timeout * HZ); + ieee80211_sta_expire(sdata, ifmsh->mshcfg.plink_timeout * + (unsigned long)HZ); mesh_path_expire(sdata); changed = mesh_accept_plinks_update(sdata); -- 2.1.0