> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoshihiro Shimoda
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 2:15 PM
>
> This patch fixes an issue that a syscall (e.g. sendto syscall) cannot
> work correctly. Since the sendto syscall doesn't have msg_control buffer,
> the sock_tx_timestamp() in packet_snd() cannot work correctly because
> the socks.tsflags is set to 0.
> So, this patch sets the socks.tsflags to sk->sk_tsflags as default.
>
> Fixes: c14ac9451c34 ("sock: enable timestamping using control messages")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Keita Kobayashi <keita.kobayashi.ym@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
> - Set socks.tsflags to sk->sk_tsflags as default instead of a condition.
> - Fix other socks.tsflags values in the af_packet.c.
> - Revise the commit log.
>
> About v1 (as RFC):
> - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.renesas-soc/5646
>
>
> net/packet/af_packet.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> index 9f0983f..50ea97e 100644
> --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> @@ -1927,7 +1927,7 @@ retry:
> goto out_unlock;
> }
>
> - sockc.tsflags = 0;
> + sockc.tsflags = sk->sk_tsflags;
> if (msg->msg_controllen) {
> err = sock_cmsg_send(sk, msg, &sockc);
> if (unlikely(err)) {
> @@ -2678,7 +2678,7 @@ static int tpacket_snd(struct packet_sock *po, struct msghdr *msg)
> dev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(&po->sk), saddr->sll_ifindex);
> }
>
> - sockc.tsflags = 0;
> + sockc.tsflags = sk->sk_tsflags;
Oops! I mistook this. I will resubmit a fixed patch
Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda
