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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 net-next] net: drop_monitor: support drop reason
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On 1/26/22 8:33 PM, menglong8.dong@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Menglong Dong <imagedong@tencent.com>
>
> In the commit c504e5c2f964 ("net: skb: introduce kfree_skb_reason()")
> drop reason is introduced to the tracepoint of kfree_skb. Therefore,
> drop_monitor is able to report the drop reason to users by netlink.
>
> For now, the number of drop reason is passed to users ( seems it's
> a little troublesome to pass the drop reason as string ). Therefore,
> users can do some customized description of the reason.
>
> Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <imagedong@tencent.com>
> ---
> v3:
> - referring to cb->reason and cb->pc directly in
> net_dm_packet_report_fill()
>
> v2:
> - get a pointer to struct net_dm_skb_cb instead of local var for
> each field
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h | 1 +
> net/core/drop_monitor.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h b/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> index 66048cc5d7b3..b2815166dbc2 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h
> @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ enum net_dm_attr {
> NET_DM_ATTR_SW_DROPS, /* flag */
> NET_DM_ATTR_HW_DROPS, /* flag */
> NET_DM_ATTR_FLOW_ACTION_COOKIE, /* binary */
> + NET_DM_ATTR_REASON, /* u32 */
>

For userspace to properly convert reason from id to string, enum
skb_drop_reason needs to be moved from skbuff.h to a uapi file.
include/uapi/linux/net_dropmon.h seems like the best candidate to me.
Maybe others have a better idea.

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