netdev - Re: UDP sockets oddities

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:40:44 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, willemb@...gle.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: UDP sockets oddities

On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 20:25 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> It would. Since the call trace involves udp_send_skb() how come we are
> not returning an error to write(2)? are there other code paths where the
> neighbor code can do drops like these?

Are you suggesting write(2) should block until ARP resolution is
done ? :)

What about non blocking writes ?

Honestly UDP is not a protocol for which we must absolutely be sure
packets are sent or not.