netdev - Re: Latest net-next kernel 4.19.0+

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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:17:40 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        dmichail@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Latest net-next kernel 4.19.0+

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:05 PM Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com> wrote:
>
> Cong, How often does this happen ? can you some how verify if the
> problematic packet has extra end padding after the ip payload ?

For us, we need 10+ hours to get one warning. This is also
why we never capture the packet that causes this warning.


>
> It would be cool if we had a feature in kernel to store such SKB in
> memory when such issue occurs, and let the user dump it later (via
> tcpdump) and send the dump to the vendor for debug so we could just
> replay and see what happens.
>

Yeah, the warning kinda sucks, it tells almost nothing, the SKB
should be dumped up on this warning.