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Message-ID: <dc642c69-8500-457a-a53e-6a3916ef6dab@corelatus.se>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 20:06:09 +0100
From: Thomas Lange <thomas@...elatus.se>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, jthinz@...lbox.tu-berlin.de, arnd@...db.de,
deepa.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: net/core/sock.c lacks some SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW support
On 2024-01-02 16:26, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> Thomas Lange wrote:
>> It seems that net/core/sock.c is missing support for SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW in
>> some paths.
>>
>> I cross compile for a 32bit ARM system using Yocto 4.3.1, which seems to have
>> 64bit time by default. This maps SO_TIMESTAMPING to SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW which
>> is expected AFAIK.
>>
>> However, this breaks my application (Chrony) that sends SO_TIMESTAMPING as
>> a cmsg:
>>
>> sendmsg(4, {msg_name={sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(123), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.11.22")}, msg_namelen=16, msg_iov=[{iov_base="#\0\6 \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., iov_len=48}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=16, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW, cmsg_data=???}], msg_controllen=16, msg_flags=0}, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>>
>> This is because __sock_cmsg_send() does not support SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW as-is.
>>
>> This patch seems to fix things and the packet is transmitted:
>>
>> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
>> index 16584e2dd648..a56ec1d492c9 100644
>> --- a/net/core/sock.c
>> +++ b/net/core/sock.c
>> @@ -2821,6 +2821,7 @@ int __sock_cmsg_send(struct sock *sk, struct cmsghdr *cmsg,
>> sockc->mark = *(u32 *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
>> break;
>> case SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD:
>> + case SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW:
>> if (cmsg->cmsg_len != CMSG_LEN(sizeof(u32)))
>> return -EINVAL;
>>
>> However, looking through the module, it seems that sk_getsockopt() has no
>> support for SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW either, but sk_setsockopt() has.
>> Testing seems to confirm this:
>>
>> setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW, [1048], 4) = 0
>> getsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW, 0x7ed5db20, [4]) = -1 ENOPROTOOPT (Protocol not available)
>>
>> Patching sk_getsockopt() is not as obvious to me though.
>>
>> I used a custom 6.6 kernel for my tests.
>> The relevant code seems unchanged in net-next.git though.
>>
>> /Thomas
>
> The fix to getsockopt is now merged:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231221231901.67003-1-jthinz@mailbox.tu-berlin.de/T/
>
> Do you want to send the above fix to __sock_cmsg_send?
Sure, I can do that. Do you want it sent to [net]?
/Thomas
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