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From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	Ralf Lici <ralf@mandelbit.com>, Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>,
	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Subject: [PATCH net 6/6] ovpn: use monotonic clock for peer keepalive timeouts
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:41:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720144131.3657121-7-antonio@openvpn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260720144131.3657121-1-antonio@openvpn.net>

From: Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>

Replace ktime_get_real_seconds() with the monotonic
ktime_get_boottime_seconds() to ensure the keepalive mechanism is robust
against system clock modifications.

Right now, the driver uses ktime_get_real_seconds() to track peer
timeouts, relying on the system wall-clock.

An administrative time adjustment or an NTP sync that steps the clock
forward can cause `now' to instantly exceed `last_recv + timeout'.

When this occurs, the driver artificially expires healthy peers.
Depending on the OpenVPN user-space configuration, this triggers a
premature tunnel restart (if --keepalive or --ping-restart is used) or
a complete disconnection of the client (if --ping-exit is used).

Fixes: 3ecfd9349f40 ("ovpn: implement keepalive mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
---
 drivers/net/ovpn/io.c   | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c
index a6b777a9c2d9..9a66d693039a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ void ovpn_decrypt_post(void *data, int ret)
 	}
 
 	/* keep track of last received authenticated packet for keepalive */
-	WRITE_ONCE(peer->last_recv, ktime_get_real_seconds());
+	WRITE_ONCE(peer->last_recv, ktime_get_boottime_seconds());
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	sock = rcu_dereference(peer->sock);
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ void ovpn_encrypt_post(void *data, int ret)
 
 	ovpn_peer_stats_increment_tx(&peer->link_stats, orig_len);
 	/* keep track of last sent packet for keepalive */
-	WRITE_ONCE(peer->last_sent, ktime_get_real_seconds());
+	WRITE_ONCE(peer->last_sent, ktime_get_boottime_seconds());
 	/* skb passed down the stack - don't free it */
 	skb = NULL;
 err_unlock:
diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
index 8fdbb5050690..a21d02ac715e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static void unlock_ovpn(struct ovpn_priv *ovpn,
  */
 void ovpn_peer_keepalive_set(struct ovpn_peer *peer, u32 interval, u32 timeout)
 {
-	time64_t now = ktime_get_real_seconds();
+	time64_t now = ktime_get_boottime_seconds();
 
 	netdev_dbg(peer->ovpn->dev,
 		   "scheduling keepalive for peer %u: interval=%u timeout=%u\n",
@@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ void ovpn_peer_keepalive_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct ovpn_priv *ovpn = container_of(work, struct ovpn_priv,
 					      keepalive_work.work);
-	time64_t next_run = 0, now = ktime_get_real_seconds();
+	time64_t next_run = 0, now = ktime_get_boottime_seconds();
 	LLIST_HEAD(release_list);
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&ovpn->lock);
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-20 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-20 14:41 [PATCH net 0/6] pull request: fixes for ovpn 2026-07-20 Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 1/6] ovpn: avoid putting unrelated P2P peer on socket release Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 2/6] ovpn: fix peer refcount leak in TCP error paths Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 3/6] ovpn: hold peer before scheduling keepalive work Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 4/6] selftests/net: ovpn: fix getaddrinfo memory leak in ovpn_parse_remote() Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 5/6] ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn() Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-06-08 15:07 [PATCH net 0/6] pull request: fixes for ovpn 2026-06-08 Antonio Quartulli
2026-06-08 15:07 ` [PATCH net 6/6] ovpn: use monotonic clock for peer keepalive timeouts Antonio Quartulli
2026-06-10  2:42   ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-06-10  8:44     ` Marco Baffo
2026-06-10 14:31       ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-06-10 15:07         ` Marco Baffo
2026-06-10 15:27           ` Jakub Kicinski

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