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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
	netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipt_recent fixes
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:47:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42AC4B12.2080508@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ll6o1pbi.fsf@blackdown.de>

Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> I've had some ipt_recent rules acting strangely after an uptime of
> about 25 days.  The broken behavior is reproducible in the 5 minutes
> before the first jiffies roll-over right after booting too.
> 
> The cause of the problem is the jiffies comparision which doesn't work
> like intended if one of the last hits was more than LONG_MAX seconds
> ago or if the table of last hits contains empty slots and jiffies
> is > LONG_MAX.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by using get_seconds() instead of
> jiffies.  It also fixes some 64-bit issues.

Thanks, I've added it to my 2.6.13 tree.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-12 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-09 13:50 [PATCH] ipt_recent fixes Juergen Kreileder
2005-05-12 12:18 ` Stephen Frost
2005-06-12 14:47 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-06-16 11:01 ` SZALONTAI, Zoltan

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