[PATCH net 3/6] igb: only strip Rx timestamp header on the first buffer of a frame
WARM2d
REVIEWED: 4 (1M)
From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: 2026-10-01 22:25:01
Also in:
stable
Subsystem:
intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
4 review trailers.
From: Tjerk Kusters <redacted>
When Rx hardware timestamping is enabled (e.g. ptp4l, which configures
HWTSTAMP_FILTER_ALL), the NIC prepends a 16-byte timestamp header to the
first Rx buffer of every received frame. igb_clean_rx_irq() strips this
header inside its per-buffer loop:
if (igb_test_staterr(rx_desc, E1000_RXDADV_STAT_TSIP)) {
ts_hdr_len = igb_ptp_rx_pktstamp(rx_ring->q_vector,
pktbuf, ×tamp);
pkt_offset += ts_hdr_len;
size -= ts_hdr_len;
}
For a frame that spans more than one Rx buffer (e.g. a jumbo frame), this
block runs once per buffer. The timestamp header only exists at the start
of the first buffer, but igb_ptp_rx_pktstamp() is called for every buffer.
On a continuation buffer the data is packet payload, not a timestamp
header. igb_ptp_rx_pktstamp() already has two guards against acting on a
non-header buffer: it returns 0 if PTP is disabled, and returns 0 if the
reserved dwords (the first 8 bytes) are non-zero. Neither is sufficient
here: PTP is enabled, and a continuation buffer whose payload happens to
begin with 8 zero bytes passes the reserved-dword check. In that case the
payload is mistaken for a valid timestamp header and igb_ptp_rx_pktstamp()
returns IGB_TS_HDR_LEN, so the caller strips 16 bytes of real data from
that buffer. A frame spanning N buffers whose continuation buffers start
with zero bytes therefore loses 16 * (N - 1) bytes from its tail.
This is easily triggered by a GigE Vision camera streaming dark frames
(mostly 0x00 pixel data) over jumbo UDP with PTP active on the receiver:
the all-zero frames arrive truncated while frames with non-zero content
are fine. There is no error indication.
No content-based check can reliably tell a continuation buffer that begins
with zero bytes from a real timestamp header, because both are all zero.
Fix it structurally instead: only attempt the strip on the first buffer of
a frame, which is the only buffer that can contain a timestamp header. In
igb_clean_rx_irq() skb is NULL until the first buffer has been processed,
so guarding the strip with !skb restricts it to the first buffer
regardless of payload content.
Fixes: 5379260852b0 ("igb: Fix XDP with PTP enabled")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Piotr Kwapulinski <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tjerk Kusters <redacted>
Tested-by: Alexander Nowlin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index d4a897a8c82c..5c09dc4a2566 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c@@ -9069,8 +9069,11 @@ static int igb_clean_rx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector, const int budget) rx_buffer = igb_get_rx_buffer(rx_ring, size, &rx_buf_pgcnt); pktbuf = page_address(rx_buffer->page) + rx_buffer->page_offset; - /* pull rx packet timestamp if available and valid */ - if (igb_test_staterr(rx_desc, E1000_RXDADV_STAT_TSIP)) { + /* pull rx packet timestamp if available and valid; it is only + * present on the first buffer of a frame + */ + if (!skb && + igb_test_staterr(rx_desc, E1000_RXDADV_STAT_TSIP)) { int ts_hdr_len; ts_hdr_len = igb_ptp_rx_pktstamp(rx_ring->q_vector,
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