Bug 7069

Summary:	use unsigned long long for statistics
Product:	Networking	Reporter:	wbrana
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Diego Calleja (diegocg)
Status:	REJECTED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.17.11	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	patch to net_device_stats

Description wbrana 2006-08-29 04:39:48 UTC

Device statistics could use unsigned long long instead of unsigned long to prevent
integer overflow

Comment 1 wbrana 2006-08-29 04:45:49 UTC

Created attachment 8894 [details]
patch to net_device_stats

Comment 2 Diego Calleja 2006-08-29 08:01:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 469 ***

Comment 3 Diego Calleja 2006-08-29 08:39:50 UTC

I forgot to put this quote from the #469 bug: 64-bit operations are not atomic
in 32 bit machines, so you just can't make it 64-bit wide by changing the data type