Thanks to Joe Jin's reminding, this patch is applicable to mainline linux
kernel, although there is no issue due to this kind of bug in mainline kernel.
Therefore, can I first submit this patch to mainline kernel and then backport it
to stable linux with more detailed explanation how the issue is
[ Not relevant upstream, therefore no upstream commit. ]
To fix, use jiffies64_to_nsecs() directly instead of deriving the result
according to jiffies_to_usecs().
As the return type of jiffies_to_usecs() is 'unsigned int', when the return
value is more than the size of 'unsigned int', the
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