Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2015-10-09
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[PATCH 04/12] mwifiex: use ktime_get_real for timestamping

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2015-09-30 11:29:43
Also in: lkml, netdev
Subsystem: networking drivers (wireless), the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

The mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt() function creates a ktime_t from
a timeval returned by do_gettimeofday, which is slow and causes
an overflow in 2038 on 32-bit architectures.

This solves both problems by using the appropriate ktime_get_real()
function.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <redacted>
Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <redacted>
Cc: Kalle Valo <redacted>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c
index f7c717253a66..78853c51774d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 	int pad = 0, aggr_num = 0, ret;
 	struct mwifiex_tx_param tx_param;
 	struct txpd *ptx_pd = NULL;
-	struct timeval tv;
 	int headroom = adapter->iface_type == MWIFIEX_USB ? 0 : INTF_HEADER_LEN;
 
 	skb_src = skb_peek(&pra_list->skb_head);
@@ -203,8 +202,7 @@ mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 	tx_info_aggr->flags |= MWIFIEX_BUF_FLAG_AGGR_PKT;
 	skb_aggr->priority = skb_src->priority;
 
-	do_gettimeofday(&tv);
-	skb_aggr->tstamp = timeval_to_ktime(tv);
+	skb_aggr->tstamp = ktime_get_real();
 
 	do {
 		/* Check if AMSDU can accommodate this MSDU */
-- 
2.1.0.rc2
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