netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add STP xstats

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Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:39:31 -0500
From:   Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add STP xstats

Hi Nikolay,

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:49:59 +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:

> Why did you send the bridge patch again ? Does it have any changes ?

The second iproute2 patch does not include the include guards update, but
I kept the bridge_stp_stats structure and the BRIDGE_XSTATS_STP definition
otherwise iproute2 wouldn't compile.

> 
> Why do you need percpu ? All of these seem to be incremented with the
> bridge lock held. A few more comments below.

All other xstats are incremented percpu, I simply followed the pattern.

> >  	struct net_bridge_port *p
> >  		= container_of(kobj, struct net_bridge_port, kobj);
> > +	free_percpu(p->stp_stats);
> 
> Please leave a new line between local var declaration and the code. I know
> it was missing, but you can add it now. :)

OK.

> > +	if (p) {
> > +		struct bridge_stp_xstats xstats;
> 
> Please rename the local var here, using just xstats is misleading.
> Maybe stp_xstats ?

This isn't misleading to me since its scope is limited to the current block
and not the entire function. The block above dumping the VLAN xstats is
using a local "struct br_vlan_stats stats" variable for example.

> 
> > +
> > +		br_stp_get_xstats(p, &xstats);
> > +
> > +		if (nla_put(skb, BRIDGE_XSTATS_STP, sizeof(xstats), &xstats))
> > +			goto nla_put_failure;
> 
> Could you please follow how mcast xstats are dumped and do something similar ?
> It'd be nice to have similar code to audit.

Sure. I would also love to have easily auditable code in net/bridge. For
the bridge STP xstats I followed the VLAN xstats code above, which does:

    if (nla_put(skb, BRIDGE_XSTATS_VLAN, sizeof(vxi), &vxi))
        goto nla_put_failure;

But I can change the STP xstats code to the following:

    if (p) {
        nla = nla_reserve_64bit(skb, BRIDGE_XSTATS_STP,
                                sizeof(struct bridge_stp_xstats),
                                BRIDGE_XSTATS_PAD);
        if (!nla)
            goto nla_put_failure;

        br_stp_get_xstats(p, nla_data(nla));
    }

Would that be preferred?


Thanks,

	Vivien