netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net: skb: check the boundrary of drop reason in kfree_skb

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Message-ID: <20220512091558.350899ff@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 May 2022 09:15:58 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     menglong8.dong@...il.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net: skb: check the boundrary of drop
 reason in kfree_skb_reason()

On Thu, 12 May 2022 20:33:11 +0800 menglong8.dong@...il.com wrote:
> +	if (unlikely(reason <= 0 || reason >= SKB_DROP_REASON_MAX)) {
> +		DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> +		reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
> +	}

With drop_monitor fixes sending an invalid reason to the tracepoint
should be a minor bug, right?

Can we just have a:

	DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(reason <= 0 || reason >= SKB_DROP_REASON_MAX);

and avoid having this branch on non-debug builds?