Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/4] net: tap: track dropped skb via kfree_skb_reason()

[David Ahern]

On 2/20/22 10:34 PM, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> The TAP can be used as vhost-net backend. E.g., the tap_handle_frame() is
> the interface to forward the skb from TAP to vhost-net/virtio-net.
> 
> However, there are many "goto drop" in the TAP driver. Therefore, the
> kfree_skb_reason() is involved at each "goto drop" to help userspace
> ftrace/ebpf to track the reason for the loss of packets.
> 
> The below reasons are introduced:
> 
> - SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_CSUM
> - SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_COPY_DATA
> - SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_GSO_SEG
> - SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_HDR
> - SKB_DROP_REASON_FULL_RING
> 
> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changed since v1:
>   - revise the reason name
> Changed since v2:
>   - declare drop_reason as type "enum skb_drop_reason"
>   - handle the drop in skb_list_walk_safe() case
> 
>  drivers/net/tap.c          | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  include/linux/skbuff.h     |  9 +++++++++
>  include/trace/events/skb.h |  5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 

couple of places where the new reason should be in reverse xmas order;
logic wise:

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>