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

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Message-Id: <1447697800-6959-1-git-send-email-bjorn@mork.no>
Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:16:40 +0100
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Subject: [PATCH] net/core: use netdev name in warning if no parent

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>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ab9b8d0d115e..4dbf7ae6f8b5 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2403,17 +2403,20 @@ static void skb_warn_bad_offload(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	static const netdev_features_t null_features = 0;
 	struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
-	const char *driver = "";
+	const char *name = "";
 
 	if (!net_ratelimit())
 		return;
 
-	if (dev && dev->dev.parent)
-		driver = dev_driver_string(dev->dev.parent);
-
+	if (dev) {
+		if (dev->dev.parent)
+			name = dev_driver_string(dev->dev.parent);
+		else
+			name = netdev_name(dev);
+	}
 	WARN(1, "%s: caps=(%pNF, %pNF) len=%d data_len=%d gso_size=%d "
 	     "gso_type=%d ip_summed=%d\n",
-	     driver, dev ? &dev->features : &null_features,
+	     name, dev ? &dev->features : &null_features,
 	     skb->sk ? &skb->sk->sk_route_caps : &null_features,
 	     skb->len, skb->data_len, skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size,
 	     skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type, skb->ip_summed);
-- 
2.1.4

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