netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/core: use netdev name in warning if no parent

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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:22:21 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bjorn@...k.no
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: use netdev name in warning if no parent

From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:16:40 +0100

> A recent flaw in the netdev feature setting resulted in warnings
> like this one from VLAN interfaces:
> 
>  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4975 at net/core/dev.c:2419 skb_warn_bad_offload+0xbc/0xcb()
>  : caps=(0x00000000001b5820, 0x00000000001b5829) len=2782 data_len=0 gso_size=1348 gso_type=16 ip_summed=3
> 
> The ":" is supposed to be preceded by a driver name, but in this
> case it is an empty string since the device has no parent.
> 
> There are many types of network devices without a parent. The
> anonymous warnings for these devices can be hard to debug.  Log
> the network device name instead in these cases to assist further
> debugging.
> 
> This is mostly similar to how __netdev_printk() handles orphan
> devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>

Yeah that seems reasonable, applied, thanks!

I wonder if we open-code this in a lot of other places, and
therefore this deserves a helper and some auditing.
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