[Nagiosplug-devel] check_icmp RTA calculation issue

[Hiren Patel]

Zambelli, Patrick wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I would like to report a behavior of check_icmp I discovered on an 
> installation with ping and system time issues. The result of the 
> execution of the Nagios check_icmp was containing strange rta values.
> 
> In most cases it is the max integer value minus something, indicating an 
> integer value overflow.
> 
>  
> 
> Checking the source code of check_icmp.c of the last plugin version I 
> found the condition in line 1030 where the value early is compared to 
> value early. Since also the comment is indicating if early > later …  I 
> would suggest to change to condition to this:
> 
>  
> 
> /* if early > later we return 0 so as to indicate a timeout */
> 
> if(early->tv_sec > later->tv_sec ||
> 
>    (early->tv_sec == later->tv_sec && early->tv_usec > later->tv_usec))
> 
> {
> 
>             return 0;
> 
> }

I think the developers prefer diffs for these, I noticed that this is 
still not committed to svn, diff attached.
thanks for reporting this and the fix.
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