Either through misuse of the API, or races it might happen
that rte_pcapng_copy() is called before rte_pcapng_fdopen().

Simplest solution to handle this is to modify the logic for
TSC to nanosecond epoch conversion to handle the case where
the difference is negative.

Bugzilla ID: 1291
Fixes: 166591931b72 ("pcapng: modify timestamp calculation")
Cc: [email protected]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
---
 lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c b/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c
index b93af418aa..b5d1026891 100644
--- a/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c
+++ b/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c
@@ -157,11 +157,15 @@ tsc_to_ns_epoch(const struct tsc_clock *clk, uint64_t tsc)
 {
        uint64_t delta, ns;
 
+       if (unlikely(tsc < clk->tsc_base)) {
+               delta = clk->tsc_base - tsc;
+               ns = (delta >> clk->shift) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
+               return clk->ns_base - rte_reciprocal_divide_u64(ns, 
&clk->tsc_hz_inv);
+       }
+
        delta = tsc - clk->tsc_base;
        ns = (delta >> clk->shift) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
-       ns = rte_reciprocal_divide_u64(ns, &clk->tsc_hz_inv);
-
-       return clk->ns_base + ns;
+       return clk->ns_base + rte_reciprocal_divide_u64(ns, &clk->tsc_hz_inv);
 }
 
 /* length of option including padding */
-- 
2.51.0

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