Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: skb: export skb drop reaons to user by TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Sep 02 2022 - 11:52:27 EST


On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 7:18 AM <menglong8.dong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Menglong Dong <imagedong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As Eric reported, the 'reason' field is not presented when trace the
> kfree_skb event by perf:
>
> $ perf record -e skb:kfree_skb -a sleep 10
> $ perf script
> ip_defrag 14605 [021] 221.614303: skb:kfree_skb:
> skbaddr=0xffff9d2851242700 protocol=34525 location=0xffffffffa39346b1
> reason:
>
> The cause seems to be passing kernel address directly to TP_printk(),
> which is not right. As the enum 'skb_drop_reason' is not exported to
> user space through TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), perf can't get the drop reason
> string from the 'reason' field, which is a number.
>
> Therefore, we introduce the macro DEFINE_DROP_REASON(), which is used
> to define the trace enum by TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(). With the help of
> DEFINE_DROP_REASON(), now we can remove the auto-generate that we
> introduced in the commit ec43908dd556
> ("net: skb: use auto-generation to convert skb drop reason to string"),
> and define the string array 'drop_reasons'.
>
> Hmmmm...now we come back to the situation that have to maintain drop
> reasons in both enum skb_drop_reason and DEFINE_DROP_REASON. But they
> are both in dropreason.h, which makes it easier.
>
> After this commit, now the format of kfree_skb is like this:
>
> $ cat /tracing/events/skb/kfree_skb/format
> name: kfree_skb
> ID: 1524
> format:
> field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
> field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
> field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
> field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
>
> field:void * skbaddr; offset:8; size:8; signed:0;
> field:void * location; offset:16; size:8; signed:0;
> field:unsigned short protocol; offset:24; size:2; signed:0;
> field:enum skb_drop_reason reason; offset:28; size:4; signed:0;
>
> print fmt: "skbaddr=%p protocol=%u location=%p reason: %s", REC->skbaddr, REC->protocol, REC->location, __print_symbolic(REC->reason, { 1, "NOT_SPECIFIED" }, { 2, "NO_SOCKET" } ......
>
> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Note that I also provided the sha1 of the faulty patch.

You should add a corresponding Fixes: tag, to help both humans and bots.

This would also hint that this patch should target net tree, not net-next ?

> Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <imagedong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> - undef FN/FNe after use it (Jakub Kicinski)

I would love some feedback from Steven :)