From: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: reject a netdev that implements only one hwtstamp NDO
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:32:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929213233.1555567-1-nb@tipi-net.de> (raw)
ndo_hwtstamp_get and ndo_hwtstamp_set only make sense as a pair. A
driver providing just one gets no complaint today, and the mismatch
turns up in user space, where a set can succeed while the matching get
fails.
Catch it at registration instead.
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
---
net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f660fccfc0db..574fd0ba9080 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -11447,6 +11447,13 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
goto err_uninit;
}
+ if (!dev->netdev_ops->ndo_hwtstamp_get !=
+ !dev->netdev_ops->ndo_hwtstamp_set) {
+ netdev_WARN(dev, "driver implements only one hwtstamp NDO\n");
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_uninit;
+ }
+
if (netdev_need_ops_lock(dev) &&
dev->netdev_ops->ndo_set_rx_mode &&
!dev->netdev_ops->ndo_set_rx_mode_async)
base-commit: 014d795c73837ea2339a4ea8e8f82c6e959b845d
--
2.53.0
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