This is done in preparation for the upcoming time based transmission patchset. Now that skb->tstamp will be used to hold packet's txtime, we must ensure that it is being cleared when traversing namespaces. Also, doing that from skb_scrub_packet() would break our feature when tunnels are used.
Signed-off-by: Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palen...@intel.com> --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 + net/core/skbuff.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index dbe6344b727a..7104de2bc957 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -3379,6 +3379,7 @@ static __always_inline int ____dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, skb_scrub_packet(skb, true); skb->priority = 0; + skb->tstamp = 0; return 0; } diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 715c13495ba6..678fc5416ae1 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -4865,7 +4865,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_try_coalesce); */ void skb_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet) { - skb->tstamp = 0; skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST; skb->skb_iif = 0; skb->ignore_df = 0; -- 2.16.2