Hi Greg,
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 03:46:26PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit b50edd7812852d989f2ef09dcfc729690f54a42d ]
>
> I noticed tcpdump was giving funky timestamps for locally
> generated SYNACK messages on loopback interface.
>
> 11:42:46.938990 IP 127.0.0.1.48245 > 127.0.0.2.23850: S
> 945476042:945476042(0) win 43690 <mss 65495,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7>
>
> 20:28:58.502209 IP 127.0.0.2.23850 > 127.0.0.1.48245: S
> 3160535375:3160535375(0) ack 945476043 win 43690 <mss
> 65495,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7>
>
> This is because we need to clear skb->tstamp before
> entering lower stack, otherwise net_timestamp_check()
> does not set skb->tstamp.
>
> Fixes: 7faee5c0d514 ("tcp: remove TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Unless I missed something, the commit this patch fixes was not
backported to 3.10 so I think we don't need this one. I have no
idea whether it can have a side effect there though, Eric will
probably know better.
Thanks,
Willy
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