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From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>,
	Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/29] batman-adv: fix random jitter calculation
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:26:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121225112657.GC2604@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356315256-6572-20-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:14:06AM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> batadv_iv_ogm_emit_send_time() attempts to calculates a random integer
> in the range of 'orig_interval +- BATADV_JITTER' by the below lines.
> 
>         msecs = atomic_read(&bat_priv->orig_interval) - BATADV_JITTER;
>         msecs += (random32() % 2 * BATADV_JITTER);
> 
> But it actually gets 'orig_interval' or 'orig_interval - BATADV_JITTER'
> because '%' and '*' have same precedence and associativity is
> left-to-right.
> 
> This adds the parentheses at the appropriate position so that it matches
> original intension.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
> Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
> Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
> Cc: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
> Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> ---

Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

But I would suggest to apply this change to net, since it is a fix.

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-25 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-24  2:13 [PATCH 00/29] rename random32 and net_random to prandom Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 01/29] raid6test: use prandom_bytes() Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 02/29] uuid: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 03/29] x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 04/29] x86: rename random32() to prandom_u32() Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 05/29] lib/: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 06/29] mm/: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 07/29] kernel/: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 08/29] drbd: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 09/29] infiniband: rename random32() and net_random() " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 10/29] mmc: rename random32() " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 11/29] video/uvesafb: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:13 ` [PATCH 12/29] xfs: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 13/29] ubifs: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 14/29] uwb: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 15/29] lguest: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 16/29] scsi: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 17/29] mtd: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 18/29] drivers/net: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 19/29] batman-adv: fix random jitter calculation Akinobu Mita
2012-12-25 11:26   ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2012-12-25 21:35     ` Akinobu Mita
2012-12-25 21:37       ` David Miller
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 20/29] batman-adv: rename random32() to prandom_u32() Akinobu Mita
2012-12-25 11:30   ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-01-02 11:52     ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Marek Lindner
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 21/29] net/sunrpc: rename random32() and net_random() " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 22/29] net/sched: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 23/29] net/ipv4: rename " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 24/29] net/ipv6: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 25/29] net/netfilter: rename random32() and " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 26/29] net/core: " Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 27/29] net/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop Akinobu Mita
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 28/29] net/: rename net_random() to prandom_u32() Akinobu Mita
2012-12-25  0:21   ` Neil Horman
2012-12-25 11:47     ` Akinobu Mita
2012-12-26  0:42       ` Neil Horman
2012-12-24  2:14 ` [PATCH 29/29] remove unused net_random(), net_srandom(), random32(), and srandom32() Akinobu Mita

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