This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xsk: Don't assume metadata is always requested in TX completion to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: xsk-don-t-assume-metadata-is-always-requested-in-tx-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 73e1de4dcd5fc4f3ef1646515ab3172b0c875c14 Author: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 18 09:54:27 2024 -0700 xsk: Don't assume metadata is always requested in TX completion [ Upstream commit f6e922365faf4cd576bd1cf3e64b58c8a32e1856 ] `compl->tx_timestam != NULL` means that the user has explicitly requested the metadata via XDP_TX_METADATA+XDP_TX_METADATA_TIMESTAMP. Fixes: 48eb03dd2630 ("xsk: Add TX timestamp and TX checksum offload support") Reported-by: Daniele Salvatore Albano <d.albano@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Daniele Salvatore Albano <d.albano@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240318165427.1403313-1-sdf@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/net/xdp_sock.h b/include/net/xdp_sock.h index 3cb4dc9bd70e4..3d54de168a6d9 100644 --- a/include/net/xdp_sock.h +++ b/include/net/xdp_sock.h @@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ static inline void xsk_tx_metadata_complete(struct xsk_tx_metadata_compl *compl, { if (!compl) return; + if (!compl->tx_timestamp) + return; *compl->tx_timestamp = ops->tmo_fill_timestamp(priv); }