netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] net: support for TX timestamps

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:34:16 +0200
From:	Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@...el.com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] net: support for TX timestamps

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 16:15 +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > Is skb->sk always guaranteed to be set in hard_start_xmit?
> > skb_tx_timestamp() depends on it. In 2.6.23 the field always seemed to
> > be valid, but in 2.6.26 I think I have seen NULL pointers there for PTP
> > UDP broadcasts.
> 
> I don't think that skb->sk is guaranteed to be around in hard_start_xmit. But 
> we should not need it, if we overload the skb->tstamp, right?

skb->sk is needed in skb_tx_timestamp() to send the copied skb with the
time stamp back to the application, isn't it? skb_tx_timestamp() won't
crash, but it won't be able to do the desired action either. Overloading
skb->tstamp doesn't help with that.

I don't know where the connection to the originating socket is lost, but
in linux-2.6 as of one week ago (not 2.6.26, as I said above) the
skb->sk pointer is indeed NULL for the PTP broadcast packets - I just
checked again.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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