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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:13:50 -0800 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@...il.com> Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: iproute2/nstat: Bug in displaying icmp stats On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 17:10 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 15:35 -0800, Vijay Subramanian wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed nstat is displaying icmp stats incorrectly. > > > > $ cat /proc/net/snmp | grep Icmp | head -2 | awk '{print $1 " " $2 " " > > $3 " " $4}' > > Icmp: InMsgs InErrors InCsumErrors > > Icmp: 215 0 0 > > > > $ nstat -az | grep IcmpIn | head -3 > > IcmpInMsgs 0 0.0 > > IcmpInErrors 215 0.0 > > IcmpInCsumErrors 0 0.0 > > > > For example, as seen in /proc/net/snmp, IcmpInMsgs should be 215 but > > that value is assigned to IcmpInErrors. > > > > The issue seems to be the way the values are populated. > > > > $vim +209 misc/nstat.c > > -----x---- > > > > /* Trick to skip "dummy" trailing ICMP MIB in 2.4 */ > > > > if (strcmp(idbuf, "IcmpOutAddrMaskReps") == 0) > > > > idbuf[5] = 0; > > > > else > > > > n = n->next; > > > > -----x------ > > > > It seems "IcmpOutAddrMaskReps" is processed twice and values assigned > > are off by one. > > > > Any idea what the code is doing for 2.4 kernel and how to fix this? > > > > vijay > > According to > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git > > This was fixed in 2002 : > > commit b838c6d5c189d03d3db56c2774de451cf041a39f > Author: Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@...ertner.de> > Date: Sun Sep 29 03:56:52 2002 -0700 > > net/ipv4/proc.c: Dont print dummy member of icmp_mib. > > diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c > index 649620a..3f2dbcb 100644 > --- a/net/ipv4/proc.c > +++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c > @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int snmp_get_info(char *buffer, char **start, off_t offset, int length) > len += sprintf (buffer + len, > "\nIcmp: InMsgs InErrors InDestUnreachs InTimeExcds InParmProbs InSrcQuenchs InRedirects InEchos InEchoReps InTimestamps InTimestampReps InAddrMasks InAddrMaskReps OutMsgs OutErrors OutDestUnreachs OutTimeExcds OutParmProbs OutSrcQuenchs OutRedirects OutEchos OutEchoReps OutTimestamps OutTimestampReps OutAddrMasks OutAddrMaskReps\n" > "Icmp:"); > - for (i=0; i<offsetof(struct icmp_mib, __pad)/sizeof(unsigned long); i++) > + for (i=0; i<offsetof(struct icmp_mib, dummy)/sizeof(unsigned long); i++) > len += sprintf(buffer+len, " %lu", fold_field((unsigned long*)icmp_statistics, sizeof(struct icmp_mib), i)); > > len += sprintf (buffer + len, > I guess we could count number of spaces/fields in both lines, and disable the iproute2 trick if counts match. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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