Re: [PATCH net] net: validate SO_TXTIME clockid coming from userspace

From: Abhishek Chauhan (ABC)
Date: Tue May 28 2024 - 23:32:54 EST




On 5/28/2024 6:15 PM, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> On 5/28/24 3:49 PM, Abhishek Chauhan wrote:
>> Currently there are no strict checks while setting SO_TXTIME
>> from userspace. With the recent development in skb->tstamp_type
>> clockid with unsupported clocks results in warn_on_once, which causes
>> unnecessary aborts in some systems which enables panic on warns.
>>
>> Add validation in setsockopt to support only CLOCK_REALTIME,
>> CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_TAI to be set from userspace.
>>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/bc037db4-58bb-4861-ac31-a361a93841d3@xxxxxxxxx/
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240509211834.3235191-1-quic_abchauha@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>> Fixes: 1693c5db6ab8 ("net: Add additional bit to support clockid_t timestamp type")
>
> Patch lgtm. This should target for net-next instead of net. The Fixes patch is in net-next only.
>
Thanks Martin. Let me raise a patch on net-next and add your acked-by to it as well.

> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@xxxxxxxxxx>
>