 Random-walk exit bound from a positive-increment block

For a random walk with independent and identically distributed increments and an exit time from $(0,r)$, suppose $p=\mathbb{P}(X_1>r/m)>0$ for some integer $m\ge 1$. A block of $m$ such positive increments forces an exit. Conditional on survival, every successive block has success probability at least $p^m$, so $\mathbb{P}(T>km)\le (1-p^m{)}^k$ and $\mathbb{E}T\le m/p^m$. This is an instance of the geometric tail bound from a uniform escape probability; centering of the increments is not required.