netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/7] net: skb_drop_reason: add document for drop reasons

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Message-ID: <20220210081322.566488f6@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:13:22 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@...il.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, mingo@...hat.com,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        pablo@...filter.org, kadlec@...filter.org,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Menglong Dong <imagedong@...cent.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, alobakin@...me,
        paulb@...dia.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        talalahmad@...gle.com, haokexin@...il.com, memxor@...il.com,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        coreteam@...filter.org, Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/7] net: skb_drop_reason: add document for
 drop reasons

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:42:14 +0800 Menglong Dong wrote:
> How about introducing a field to 'struct sock' for drop reasons? As sk is
> locked during the packet process in tcp_v4_do_rcv(), this seems to work.

I find adding temporary storage to persistent data structures awkward.
You can put a structure on the stack and pass it thru the call chain,
that's just my subjective preference, tho, others may have better ideas.