netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: fix __dev_kfree_skb

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Message-ID: <d57c8374-3803-2038-c83c-627ee5d4523f@huawei.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:47:59 +0800
From:   Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: fix __dev_kfree_skb_any() vs drop monitor

On 2023/2/23 8:07, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> dev_kfree_skb() is aliased to consume_skb().
> 
> When a driver is dropping a packet by calling dev_kfree_skb_any()
> we should propagate the drop reason instead of pretending
> the packet was consumed.
> 
> Note: Now we have enum skb_drop_reason we could remove
> enum skb_free_reason (for linux-6.4)
> 
> Fixes: e6247027e517 ("net: introduce dev_consume_skb_any()")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 18dc8d75ead9795163ace74e8e86fe35cb9b7552..2bf60afde1e2e4be4806070754ae7486705c5237 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -3134,8 +3134,10 @@ void __dev_kfree_skb_any(struct sk_buff *skb, enum skb_free_reason reason)
>  {
>  	if (in_hardirq() || irqs_disabled())
>  		__dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb, reason);
> +	else if (reason == SKB_REASON_DROPPED)

Perhaps add the unlikely() for the SKB_REASON_DROPPED case
as it is uesed in data path.

> +		kfree_skb(skb);
>  	else
> -		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> +		consume_skb(skb);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_kfree_skb_any);
>  
>