linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 2/2] ip6mr: restrict mroute6 "queue full" warning to related error values

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:58:11 -0700
From:   Julien Gomes <julien@...sta.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Julien Gomes <julien@...sta.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ip6mr: restrict mroute6 "queue full" warning to related error values

When sending a cache report on mroute6_sk, mroute6 will emit a
"pending queue full" warning for every error value returned by
sock_queue_rcv_skb().
This warning can be misleading, for example on the EPERM error value
that sk_filter() can return.

Restricting this warning to only ENOMEM or ENOBUFS seems more
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Julien Gomes <julien@...sta.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
index 7454850f2098..62fe5fd64f22 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
@@ -1215,7 +1215,8 @@ static int ip6mr_cache_report(struct mr6_table *mrt, struct sk_buff *pkt,
 	 */
 	ret = sock_queue_rcv_skb(mrt->mroute6_sk, skb);
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		net_warn_ratelimited("mroute6: pending queue full, dropping entries\n");
+		if (ret == -ENOMEM || ret == -ENOBUFS)
+			net_warn_ratelimited("mroute6: pending queue full, dropping entries\n");
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 	}
 
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