Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 2/7] ss: Make sure index variable is >= 0

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:34:04 -0700

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 19:08:08 +0200
Phil Sutter <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This shouldn't happen but relying upon external data without checking
> may lead to unexpected results.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  misc/ss.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/misc/ss.c b/misc/ss.c
> index 10360e5a04ff8..1ee02d73b2d7f 100644
> --- a/misc/ss.c
> +++ b/misc/ss.c
> @@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ static void tcp_timer_print(struct tcpstat *s)
>  		"unknown"
>  	};
>  
> -	if (s->timer) {
> +	if (s->timer >= 0) {
>  		if (s->timer > 4)
>  			s->timer = 5;
>  		printf(" timer:(%s,%s,%d)",

Let's go one step deeper on this.
Why is s->timer an int, it should be unsigned. In which case the code in
print would not have to change.