Message ID | 20081125083250.2ad7d75d@infradead.org |
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State | Changes Requested, archived |
Delegated to: | David Miller |
Headers | show |
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 08:32 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > From 97a8ab520c378568e172c555a156b469137a3828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:30:04 -0800 > Subject: [PATCH] net: make skb_truesize_bug() call WARN() > > The truesize message check is important enough to make it print "BUG" to the > user console... lets also make it important enough to spit a backtrace/module list > etc so that kerneloops.org can track them. > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > --- > net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c > index 391be91..1a1f4d1 100644 > --- a/net/core/skbuff.c > +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c > @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ void skb_under_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, int sz, void *here) > > void skb_truesize_bug(struct sk_buff *skb) > { > - printk(KERN_ERR "SKB BUG: Invalid truesize (%u) " > + WARN(1, KERN_ERR "SKB BUG: Invalid truesize (%u) " > "len=%u, sizeof(sk_buff)=%Zd\n", > skb->truesize, skb->len, sizeof(struct sk_buff)); > } The bug reports I've seen (with my Debian hat on, not relating to sfc) show that configurations that trigger this warning are likely to trigger many times over and there's nothing the user can do about it. So by all means do make the warning more obvious, but please make it WARN_ON_ONCE and then use printk qualified by net_ratelimit(). Ben.
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 391be91..1a1f4d1 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ void skb_under_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, int sz, void *here) void skb_truesize_bug(struct sk_buff *skb) { - printk(KERN_ERR "SKB BUG: Invalid truesize (%u) " + WARN(1, KERN_ERR "SKB BUG: Invalid truesize (%u) " "len=%u, sizeof(sk_buff)=%Zd\n", skb->truesize, skb->len, sizeof(struct sk_buff)); }