From e34aea99f083cc6aac10b9936520940eb73edd1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Liu <139250065@qq.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:06:25 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ethstats: use timer instead of time.After in loops #29241
 (#1454)

---
 ethstats/ethstats.go | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ethstats/ethstats.go b/ethstats/ethstats.go
index 0bdba96e7a..3b20d561c0 100644
--- a/ethstats/ethstats.go
+++ b/ethstats/ethstats.go
@@ -574,10 +574,13 @@ func (s *Service) reportLatency(conn *connWrapper) error {
 		return err
 	}
 	// Wait for the pong request to arrive back
+	timer := time.NewTimer(5 * time.Second)
+	defer timer.Stop()
+
 	select {
 	case <-s.pongCh:
 		// Pong delivered, report the latency
-	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+	case <-timer.C:
 		// Ping timeout, abort
 		return errors.New("ping timed out")
 	}