netdev - Re: commit f5f99309 (sock: do not set sk_err in sock_dequeue_err

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Date:   Thu, 1 Jun 2017 22:03:14 +0200
From:   Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@...e.cz>
To:     Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Yaogong Wang <wygivan@...gle.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit f5f99309 (sock: do not set sk_err in
 sock_dequeue_err_skb) has broken ping

Hi!
> Thank you very much! I have a wild guess that, when we
> have a train of skbs on the error queue starting from a local error,
> we will see this issue.
> 
> Ping (without my patch) considers EAGAIN on a normal read as an
> indication that there is nothing on the error queue, but that's a
> flawed assumption.
> 
> Would you mind trying another shot in the darkness please? Thanks!

This patch seems to fix the issue, I've tried several times and poll()
just timeouts, haven't seen a single POLLERR in the ping strace.

You can add my Tested-by: for this patch as well :-).

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@...e.cz