Hi,
> From: Willem de Bruijn
> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 12:31 AM
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Yoshihiro Shimoda
> <yoshihiro.shimoda...@renesas.com> wrote:
> > Since the sendto syscall doesn't have msg_control buffer,
> > the sock_tx_timestamp() in packet_snd() cannot work correctly because
> > the socks.fsflags is set to 0.
>
> You're right. __sock_tx_timestamp used to take sk->sk_tsflags as
> input, now it relies solely on this parameter tsflags. All callsites
> must either pass sk->sk_tsflags directly or initialize sockc.tsflags
> to this value.
Thank you very much for the comment!
> > diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> > index 9f0983f..d76fd41 100644
> > --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> > +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> > @@ -2887,6 +2887,11 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct
> > msghdr *msg, size_t len)
> > err = sock_cmsg_send(sk, msg, &sockc);
> > if (unlikely(err))
> > goto out_unlock;
> > + } else {
> > + /* Set tsflags from sk because a syscall (e.g. sendto)
> > doesn't
> > + * have msg_control buffer.
> > + */
> > + sockc.tsflags = sk->sk_tsflags;
> > }
>
> Better to follow the example of other protocols. In all three packet
> variants, make the following initialization change:
>
> - sockc.tsflags = 0;
> + sockc.tsflags = sk->sk_tsflags;
Thank you for the suggestion. I submitted a fixed patch now.
Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda
> (I had to remove some recipients, because my reply was marked as spam
> and dropped otherwise..)
