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[PATCH net] wireguard: queueing: preserve tstamp_type in wg_reset_packet()

From: Ramses de Norre via B4 Relay <devnull+ramses.well-founded.dev@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-08-27 11:52:57
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Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest, wireguard secure network tunnel · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Jason A. Donenfeld

From: Ramses de Norre <redacted>

Sending traffic through a wireguard tunnel on a host using the fq
qdisc fills the log with:

  fq: likely mono tstamp with tstamp_type 0

An skb carries a timestamp in skb->tstamp and, separately, a
skb->tstamp_type field recording which clock that timestamp came from.
The two have to agree.

When wireguard encapsulates a packet it calls wg_reset_packet(), which
clears the fields that must not leak from the inner packet into the
tunnel packet. It does so in two steps:

  skb_scrub_packet(skb, true);
  memset(&skb->headers, 0, sizeof(skb->headers));

skb_scrub_packet() deliberately keeps skb->tstamp when it holds a
monotonic timestamp: that value is the time the packet is scheduled to
be sent, and the qdisc still needs it. The memset then zeroes
skb->tstamp_type, because that field sits inside the headers group
while skb->tstamp does not. The packet therefore leaves wireguard
carrying a monotonic timestamp labelled as a realtime one.

Nothing noticed until commit c4f796c4f16b ("net_sched: sch_fq: convert
skb->tstamp if not monotonic"): fq used to assume every timestamp was
monotonic. It now consults tstamp_type, spots the mismatch, warns, and
falls back to treating the value as monotonic. Pacing still ends up
correct, so the log spam is the actual problem.

Save tstamp_type before the memset and restore it when encapsulating,
next to the hash fields that are already carried over this way. When
decapsulating it stays zeroed, which is right: an incoming packet's
timestamp is a realtime receive timestamp.

Fixes: de799101519a ("net: Add skb_clear_tstamp() to keep the mono delivery_time")
Signed-off-by: Ramses de Norre <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wireguard/queueing.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireguard/queueing.h b/drivers/net/wireguard/queueing.h
index 79b6d70de236b..663b19b783953 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireguard/queueing.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireguard/queueing.h
@@ -78,12 +78,14 @@ static inline void wg_reset_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool encapsulating)
 	u8 l4_hash = skb->l4_hash;
 	u8 sw_hash = skb->sw_hash;
 	u32 hash = skb->hash;
+	u8 tstamp_type = skb->tstamp_type;
 	skb_scrub_packet(skb, true);
 	memset(&skb->headers, 0, sizeof(skb->headers));
 	if (encapsulating) {
 		skb->l4_hash = l4_hash;
 		skb->sw_hash = sw_hash;
 		skb->hash = hash;
+		skb->tstamp_type = tstamp_type;
 	}
 	skb->queue_mapping = 0;
 	skb->nohdr = 0;
---
base-commit: 24ef02f934eeb48830cff6b739abc3c62b1d107b
change-id: 20260817-wg-tstamp-b327825122dc

Best regards,
--  
Ramses de Norre [off-list ref]

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