Inactive times of around 0xffffffff milliseconds have been observed on an ath9k device on ARM. This is likely due to an race in the jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - last_active()) calculation causing an overflow when the observed jiffies is below ieee80211_sta_last_active(). Use jiffies_delta_to_msecs() instead to avoid this problem. Fixes: 7bbdd2d98797 ("mac80211: implement station stats retrieval") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari --- This code has been touched recently so backporting will be less easy. net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c index 8c550aab9bdc..c3db278f2911 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -2760,7 +2760,8 @@ static void sta_set_link_sinfo(struct sta_info *sta, } link_sinfo->inactive_time = - jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - ieee80211_sta_last_active(sta, link_id)); + jiffies_delta_to_msecs(jiffies - ieee80211_sta_last_active(sta, + link_id)); if (!(link_sinfo->filled & (BIT_ULL(NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES64) | BIT_ULL(NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES)))) { @@ -2993,7 +2994,8 @@ void sta_set_sinfo(struct sta_info *sta, struct station_info *sinfo, sinfo->connected_time = ktime_get_seconds() - sta->last_connected; sinfo->assoc_at = sta->assoc_at; sinfo->inactive_time = - jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - ieee80211_sta_last_active(sta, -1)); + jiffies_delta_to_msecs(jiffies - ieee80211_sta_last_active(sta, + -1)); if (!(sinfo->filled & (BIT_ULL(NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES64) | BIT_ULL(NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES)))) { base-commit: cbf658dd09419f1ef9de11b9604e950bdd5c170b -- 2.51.0