netdev - Re: [PATCH] inet_diag: fix reporting cgroup classid and fallback to priority

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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:28:27 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sashal@...nel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inet_diag: fix reporting cgroup classid and fallback to
 priority

On 12.02.2019 21:37, David Miller wrote:
> From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 13:35:52 +0300
> 
>> Field idiag_ext in struct inet_diag_req_v2 used as bitmap of requested
>> extensions has only 8 bits. Thus extensions starting from DCTCPINFO
>> cannot be requested directly. Some of them included into response
>> unconditionally or hook into some of lower 8 bits.
>>
>> Extension INET_DIAG_CLASS_ID has not way to request from the beginning.
>>
>> This patch bundle it with INET_DIAG_TCLASS (ipv6 tos), fixes space
>> reservation, and documents behavior for other extensions.
>>
>> Also this patch adds fallback to reporting socket priority. This filed
>> is more widely used for traffic classification because ipv4 sockets
>> automatically maps TOS to priority and default qdisc pfifo_fast knows
>> about that. But priority could be changed via setsockopt SO_PRIORITY so
>> INET_DIAG_TOS isn't enough for predicting class.
>>
>> Also cgroup2 obsoletes net_cls classid (it always zero), but we cannot
>> reuse this field for reporting cgroup2 id because it is 64-bit (ino+gen).
>>
>> So, after this patch INET_DIAG_CLASS_ID will report socket priority
>> for most common setup when net_cls isn't set and/or cgroup2 in use.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
>> Fixes: 0888e372c37f ("net: inet: diag: expose sockets cgroup classid")
> 
> Applied, and queued up for -stable.
> 
> Please always put the Fixes: tag first in the list of tags.  I fixed
> it up for you this time.

Ok. Never heard about that rule, checkpatch.pl doesn't complain about that too.

> 
> Thanks.
>