netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: stop endless flood about dst entry refcount underflow or overflow

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Message-ID: <1436876767.1374.13.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:26:07 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stop endless flood about dst entry refcount
 underflow or overflow

On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 15:15 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:

> Simple warn-once will hide a lot of information which could be useful.
> Also dst entry leak is better than freeing actually active entry.

Then BUG_ON() .

Really, we need to fix leaks, not brown paper them.



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