netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] net: use DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() in sk_stream_kill

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Date:   Tue, 7 Jun 2022 21:10:23 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] net: use DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() in
 sk_stream_kill_queues()

On Tue,  7 Jun 2022 10:17:28 -0700 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> sk_stream_kill_queues() has three checks which have been
> useful to detect kernel bugs in the past.
> 
> However they are potentially a problem because they
> could flood the syslog, and really only a developper
> can make sense of them.
> 
> Keep the checks for CONFIG_DEBUG_NET=y builds,
> and issue them once only.

I feel like 3 & 4 had caught plenty of bugs which triggered only 
in production / at scale. In my head DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() is 
great for things we are relatively sure syzbot will trigger.
Am I mis-characterizing things or should we WARN_ON_ONCE() those?