netdev - Re: [PATCH] xdp: fix xsk_generic

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:18:12 +0200
From:   Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>
To:     Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdp: fix xsk_generic_xmit errno

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 07:11, Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com> wrote:
>
> propagate sock_alloc_send_skb error code, not set it
> to EAGAIN unconditionally, when fail to allocate skb,
> which maybe causes that user space unnecessary loops
>
> Fixes: 35fcde7f8deb "(xsk: support for Tx)"
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>


Thanks!
Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>

Alexei/Daniel: This should go into "bpf".


Björn

> ---
>  net/xdp/xsk.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> index b6c0f08bd80d..1ba3ea262c15 100644
> --- a/net/xdp/xsk.c
> +++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> @@ -353,7 +353,6 @@ static int xsk_generic_xmit(struct sock *sk)
>                 len = desc.len;
>                 skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, len, 1, &err);
>                 if (unlikely(!skb)) {
> -                       err = -EAGAIN;
>                         goto out;
>                 }
>
> --
> 2.16.2
>