[PATCH] ipconfig: Use time_before

[PATCH] ipconfig: Use time_before

[Himangi Saraogi]

The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.

A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change
is as follows:

@change@
expression E1,E2;
@@
- jiffies - E1 < E2
+ time_before(jiffies, E1+E2)

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
---
 net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 5bbef4f..648fa14 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ static int __init ic_open_devs(void)
 	/* wait for a carrier on at least one device */
 	start = jiffies;
 	next_msg = start + msecs_to_jiffies(CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT/12);
-	while (jiffies - start < msecs_to_jiffies(CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT)) {
+	while (time_before(jiffies, start +
+			   msecs_to_jiffies(CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT))) {
 		int wait, elapsed;
 
 		for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev)
-- 
1.9.1

Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: Use time_before

[David Miller]

From: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:14:10 +0530

> The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
> are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.
> 
> A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change
> is as follows:
> 
> @change@
> expression E1,E2;
> @@
> - jiffies - E1 < E2
> + time_before(jiffies, E1+E2)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

Applied.