Re: [PATCH] ovs: Only clear tstamp when changing namespaces

[Cong Wang]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 10:59 AM Tyler J. Stachecki
<stachecki.tyler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As of "ovs: clear skb->tstamp in forwarding path", the
> tstamp is now being cleared unconditionally to fix fq qdisc
> operation with ovs vports.
>
> While this is mostly correct and fixes forwarding for that
> use case, a slight adjustment is necessary to ensure that
> the tstamp is cleared *only when the forwarding is across
> namespaces*.

Hmm? I am sure timestamp has already been cleared when
crossing netns:

void skb_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet)
{
...
        if (!xnet)
                return;

        ipvs_reset(skb);
        skb->mark = 0;
        skb->tstamp = 0;
}

So, what are you trying to fix?

>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler J. Stachecki <stachecki.tyler@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/vport.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport.c b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
> index cf2ce5812489..c2d32a5c3697 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/vport.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
> @@ -507,7 +507,8 @@ void ovs_vport_send(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 mac_proto)
>         }
>
>         skb->dev = vport->dev;
> -       skb->tstamp = 0;
> +       if (dev_net(skb->dev))

Doesn't dev_net() always return a non-NULL pointer?

If you really want to check whether it is cross-netns, you should
use net_eq() to compare src netns with dst netns, something like:
if (!net_eq(dev_net(vport->dev), dev_net(skb->dev))).

Thanks.