From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: KhaiWenTan <khai.wen.tan@linux.intel.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Song Yoong Siang <yoong.siang.song@intel.com>,
Looi Hong Aun <hong.aun.looi@intel.com>,
KhaiWenTan <khai.wen.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] af_packet: Fix wrong timestamps in tcpdump
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:01:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.2721e06a6436@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261111053728.2611070-1-khai.wen.tan@linux.intel.com>
KhaiWenTan wrote:
> From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
>
> Since commit 97dc7cd92ac6 ("ptp: Support late timestamp determination"),
> timestamps may need to be retrieved with input from the driver
> .ndo_get_tstamp(). Support was missing from mmap'ed AF_PACKET sockets.
>
> The problem was noticed using the igc driver, that since commit
> 069b142f5819 ("igc: Add support for PTP .getcyclesx64()") has migrated to
> use .ndo_get_tstamp() that timestamps were wrong on the receiving side,
> when using tcpdump.
>
> Fixes: 069b142f5819 ("igc: Add support for PTP .getcyclesx64()")a
Fixes: 97dc7cd92ac6 ("ptp: Support late timestamp determination")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: KhaiWenTan <khai.wen.tan@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> net/packet/af_packet.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> index cf6429f09477..7197236c8a3b 100644
> --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> @@ -456,15 +456,20 @@ static int __packet_get_status(const struct packet_sock *po, void *frame)
> }
> }
>
> -static __u32 tpacket_get_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct timespec64 *ts,
> - unsigned int flags)
> +static __u32 tpacket_get_timestamp(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> + struct timespec64 *ts, unsigned int flags,
> + unsigned int sk_tsflags)
> {
> struct skb_shared_hwtstamps *shhwtstamps = skb_hwtstamps(skb);
>
> - if (shhwtstamps &&
> - (flags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE) &&
> - ktime_to_timespec64_cond(shhwtstamps->hwtstamp, ts))
> - return TP_STATUS_TS_RAW_HARDWARE;
> + bool cycles = sk_tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_BIND_PHC;
nit: whitespace line between variable declarations
> +
> + if (shhwtstamps && shhwtstamps->hwtstamp &&
> + (flags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE)) {
> + ktime_t tstamp = netdev_get_tstamp(dev, shhwtstamps, cycles);
Does this call need to be conditional on SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP_NETDEV, to
interpret the union as netdev_data?
like get_timestamp, resolve the orig_dev.
> +
> + return ktime_to_timespec64_cond(tstamp, ts) ? TP_STATUS_TS_RAW_HARDWARE : 0;
> + }
>
> if ((flags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE) &&
> ktime_to_timespec64_cond(skb_tstamp(skb), ts))
> @@ -476,11 +481,16 @@ static __u32 tpacket_get_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct timespec64 *ts,
> static __u32 __packet_set_timestamp(struct packet_sock *po, void *frame,
> struct sk_buff *skb)
> {
> + struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
validate skb->dev != NULL
> + unsigned int sk_tsflags;
> union tpacket_uhdr h;
> struct timespec64 ts;
> __u32 ts_status;
>
> - if (!(ts_status = tpacket_get_timestamp(skb, &ts, READ_ONCE(po->tp_tstamp))))
> + sk_tsflags = READ_ONCE(po->sk.sk_tsflags);
> + ts_status = tpacket_get_timestamp(dev, skb, &ts, READ_ONCE(po->tp_tstamp), sk_tsflags);
> +
> + if (!(ts_status))
> return 0;
>
> h.raw = frame;
> @@ -2424,9 +2434,10 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
> /* Always timestamp; prefer an existing software timestamp taken
> * closer to the time of capture.
> */
> - ts_status = tpacket_get_timestamp(skb, &ts,
> + ts_status = tpacket_get_timestamp(dev, skb, &ts,
> READ_ONCE(po->tp_tstamp) |
> - SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE);
> + SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE,
> + READ_ONCE(sk->sk_tsflags));
> if (!ts_status)
> ktime_get_real_ts64(&ts);
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-12 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-11 5:37 [PATCH net 1/1] af_packet: Fix wrong timestamps in tcpdump KhaiWenTan
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