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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt9
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h14
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/sockios.h3
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev_ioctl.c2
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c1
5 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
index 98097d8cb910..661d3c316a17 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Filled in if SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE is set. Requires support
by the network device and will be empty without that support.
-SIOCSHWTSTAMP:
+SIOCSHWTSTAMP, SIOCGHWTSTAMP:
Hardware time stamping must also be initialized for each device driver
that is expected to do hardware time stamping. The parameter is defined in
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ Only a processes with admin rights may change the configuration. User
space is responsible to ensure that multiple processes don't interfere
with each other and that the settings are reset.
+Any process can read the actual configuration by passing this
+structure to ioctl(SIOCGHWTSTAMP) in the same way. However, this has
+not been implemented in all drivers.
+
/* possible values for hwtstamp_config->tx_type */
enum {
/*
@@ -157,7 +161,8 @@ DEVICE IMPLEMENTATION
A driver which supports hardware time stamping must support the
SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl and update the supplied struct hwtstamp_config with
-the actual values as described in the section on SIOCSHWTSTAMP.
+the actual values as described in the section on SIOCSHWTSTAMP. It
+should also support SIOCGHWTSTAMP.
Time stamps for received packets must be stored in the skb. To get a pointer
to the shared time stamp structure of the skb call skb_hwtstamps(). Then
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h b/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h
index c9a7de2a6276..f53879c0f590 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h
@@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ enum {
};
/**
- * struct hwtstamp_config - %SIOCSHWTSTAMP parameter
+ * struct hwtstamp_config - %SIOCGHWTSTAMP and %SIOCSHWTSTAMP parameter
*
- * @flags: no flags defined right now, must be zero
+ * @flags: no flags defined right now, must be zero for %SIOCSHWTSTAMP
* @tx_type: one of HWTSTAMP_TX_*
* @rx_filter: one of HWTSTAMP_FILTER_*
*
- * %SIOCSHWTSTAMP expects a &struct ifreq with a ifr_data pointer to
- * this structure. If the driver or hardware does not support the
- * requested @rx_filter value, the driver may use a more general
- * filter mode. In this case @rx_filter will indicate the actual mode
- * on return.
+ * %SIOCGHWTSTAMP and %SIOCSHWTSTAMP expect a &struct ifreq with a
+ * ifr_data pointer to this structure. For %SIOCSHWTSTAMP, if the
+ * driver or hardware does not support the requested @rx_filter value,
+ * the driver may use a more general filter mode. In this case
+ * @rx_filter will indicate the actual mode on return.
*/
struct hwtstamp_config {
int flags;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h b/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h
index 7997a506ad41..e888b1aed69f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@
#define SIOCBRDELIF 0x89a3 /* remove interface from bridge */
/* hardware time stamping: parameters in linux/net_tstamp.h */
-#define SIOCSHWTSTAMP 0x89b0
+#define SIOCSHWTSTAMP 0x89b0 /* set and get config */
+#define SIOCGHWTSTAMP 0x89b1 /* get config */
/* Device private ioctl calls */
diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
index 5b7d0e1d0664..cf999e09bcd2 100644
--- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
cmd == SIOCBRADDIF ||
cmd == SIOCBRDELIF ||
cmd == SIOCSHWTSTAMP ||
+ cmd == SIOCGHWTSTAMP ||
cmd == SIOCWANDEV) {
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (ops->ndo_do_ioctl) {
@@ -546,6 +547,7 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
*/
default:
if (cmd == SIOCWANDEV ||
+ cmd == SIOCGHWTSTAMP ||
(cmd >= SIOCDEVPRIVATE &&
cmd <= SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 15)) {
dev_load(net, ifr.ifr_name);
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 7a766ab83ca5..1a548b70ef3a 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -3231,6 +3231,7 @@ static int compat_sock_ioctl_trans(struct file *file, struct socket *sock,
case SIOCBONDSLAVEINFOQUERY:
case SIOCBONDINFOQUERY:
case SIOCSHWTSTAMP:
+ case SIOCGHWTSTAMP:
return compat_ifr_data_ioctl(net, cmd, argp);
case FIOSETOWN: