On Wednesday 10 June 2009 2:27:15 pm John Baldwin wrote: > Author: jhb > Date: Wed Jun 10 18:27:15 2009 > New Revision: 193941 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193941 > > Log: > Change a few members of tcpcb that store cached copies of ticks to be ints > instead of unsigned longs. This fixes a few overflow edge cases on 64-bit > platforms. Specifically, if an idle connection receives a packet shortly > before 2^31 clock ticks of uptime (about 25 days with hz=1000) and the keep > alive timer fires after 2^31 clock ticks, the keep alive timer will think > that the connection has been idle for a very long time and will immediately > drop the connection instead of sending a keep alive probe. Note that this changes the layout of 'struct tcpcb' which is used by at least netstat, so you will need to update world + kernel. -- John BaldwinReceived on Wed Jun 10 2009 - 16:43:58 UTC
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