[PATCH 2/2] pcapng: handle packets copied before file open

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Feb 20 19:41:56 CET 2026


Either through misuse of the API, or races it might happen
that rte_pcapng_copy() is called before rte_pcapng_fdopen().

Simplest solution to handle this is to modify the logic for
TSC to nanosecond epoch conversion to handle the case where
the difference is negative.

Bugzilla ID: 1291
Fixes: 166591931b72 ("pcapng: modify timestamp calculation")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c b/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c
index b93af418aa..1a1935e876 100644
--- a/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c
+++ b/lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c
@@ -155,13 +155,16 @@ tsc_clock_init(struct tsc_clock *clk)
 static inline uint64_t
 tsc_to_ns_epoch(const struct tsc_clock *clk, uint64_t tsc)
 {
-	uint64_t delta, ns;
-
-	delta = tsc - clk->tsc_base;
-	ns = (delta >> clk->shift) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
-	ns = rte_reciprocal_divide_u64(ns, &clk->tsc_hz_inv);
-
-	return clk->ns_base + ns;
+	int64_t delta = tsc - clk->tsc_base;
+	uint64_t ns;
+
+	if (unlikely(delta < 0)) {
+		ns = (-delta >> clk->shift) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
+		return clk->ns_base - rte_reciprocal_divide_u64(ns, &clk->tsc_hz_inv);
+	} else {
+		ns = (delta >> clk->shift) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
+		return clk->ns_base + rte_reciprocal_divide_u64(ns, &clk->tsc_hz_inv);
+	}
 }
 
 /* length of option including padding */
-- 
2.51.0



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