This is done in preparation for the upcoming time based transmission patchset. Now that skb->tstamp will be used to hold packet's txtime, we must ensure that it is being cleared when traversing namespaces. Also, doing that from skb_scrub_packet() before the early return would break our feature when tunnels are used.
Signed-off-by: Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palen...@intel.com> --- net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index b1f274f22d85..236802b35203 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -4898,7 +4898,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_try_coalesce); */ void skb_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet) { - skb->tstamp = 0; skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST; skb->skb_iif = 0; skb->ignore_df = 0; @@ -4913,6 +4912,7 @@ void skb_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet) ipvs_reset(skb); skb_orphan(skb); skb->mark = 0; + skb->tstamp = 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_scrub_packet); -- 2.17.1