On Sat Jul 11 2020, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 01:36:07PM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
>> +static void hellcreek_get_rxts(struct hellcreek *hellcreek,
>> +			       struct hellcreek_port_hwtstamp *ps,
>> +			       struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff_head *rxq,
>> +			       int port)
>> +{
>> +	struct skb_shared_hwtstamps *shwt;
>> +	struct sk_buff_head received;
>> +	unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> +	/* The latched timestamp belongs to one of the received frames. */
>> +	__skb_queue_head_init(&received);
>> +
>> +	/* Lock & disable interrupts */
>> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
>> +
>> +	/* Add the reception queue "rxq" to the "received" queue an reintialize
>> +	 * "rxq".  From now on, we deal with "received" not with "rxq"
>> +	 */
>> +	skb_queue_splice_tail_init(rxq, &received);
>> +
>> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
>> +
>> +	for (; skb; skb = __skb_dequeue(&received)) {
>> +		unsigned int type;
>> +		u8 *hdr;
>> +		u64 ns;
>> +
>> +		/* Get nanoseconds from ptp packet */
>> +		type = SKB_PTP_TYPE(skb);
>> +		hdr  = parse_ptp_header(skb, type);
>> +		ns   = hellcreek_get_reserved_field(hdr);
>
> You might consider clearing the reserved field at this point.  Some
> user space SW might consider non-zero reserved fields as corrupt!

Indeed. Never thought about it.

Thanks,
Kurt