From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754468Ab2LZMcu (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:32:50 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:52067 "EHLO mail-pa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754377Ab2LZMcq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:32:46 -0500 From: Akinobu Mita To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Akinobu Mita , Marek Lindner , Simon Wunderlich , Antonio Quartulli , b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH] batman-adv: fix random jitter calculation Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:32:10 +0900 Message-Id: <1356525130-2688-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.11.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli Cc: Marek Lindner Cc: Simon Wunderlich Cc: Antonio Quartulli Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org --- This patch is extracted from the patch series "rename random32 and net_random to prandom" since it is a fix. net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c index 9f3925a..7d02ebd 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ batadv_iv_ogm_emit_send_time(const struct batadv_priv *bat_priv) unsigned int msecs; msecs = atomic_read(&bat_priv->orig_interval) - BATADV_JITTER; - msecs += (random32() % 2 * BATADV_JITTER); + msecs += random32() % (2 * BATADV_JITTER); return jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(msecs); } -- 1.7.11.7