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Date:   Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:02:49 +0800
From:   Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, xeb@...l.ru,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Menglong Dong <imagedong@...cent.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Martin Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Talal Ahmad <talalahmad@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>,
        Hao Peng <flyingpeng@...cent.com>,
        Mengen Sun <mengensun@...cent.com>, dongli.zhang@...cle.com,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Biao Jiang <benbjiang@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] net: icmp: add reasons of the skb drops
 to icmp protocol

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:05 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:35:47 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> > On 3/16/22 9:18 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > >
> > > I guess this set raises the follow up question to Dave if adding
> > > drop reasons to places with MIB exception stats means improving
> > > the granularity or one MIB stat == one reason?
> >
> > There are a few examples where multiple MIB stats are bumped on a drop,
> > but the reason code should always be set based on first failure. Did you
> > mean something else with your question?
>
> I meant whether we want to differentiate between TYPE, and BROADCAST or
> whatever other possible invalid protocol cases we can get here or just
> dump them all into a single protocol error code.

Such as a SKB_DROP_REASON_PROTO_NOTSUPPORTED? and apply
it to 'GRE_VERSION' such cases too? Which means the data is not supported
by current protocol.

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