Re: [PATCH] net: udp: increase UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS when ENOBUFS

From: Paolo Abeni
Date: Mon Oct 26 2020 - 05:53:31 EST


Hello,

On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 17:39 +0800, Menglong Dong wrote:
> The error returned from __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb is ENOMEM or ENOBUFS.
> For now, only ENOMEM is counted into UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS in
> __udp_queue_rcv_skb. UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS should count all of the
> failed skb because of memory errors during udp receiving, not just because of the limit of sock receive queue. We can see this
> in __udp4_lib_mcast_deliver:
>
> nskb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> if (unlikely(!nskb)) {
> atomic_inc(&sk->sk_drops);
> __UDP_INC_STATS(net, UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS,
> IS_UDPLITE(sk));
> __UDP_INC_STATS(net, UDP_MIB_INERRORS,
> IS_UDPLITE(sk));
> continue;
> }
>
> See, UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS is increased when skb clone failed. From this
> point, ENOBUFS from __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb should be counted, too.
> It means that the buffer used by all of the UDP sock is to the limit, and
> it ought to be counted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/ipv4/udp.c | 4 +---
> net/ipv6/udp.c | 4 +---
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> index 09f0a23d1a01..49a69d8d55b3 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> @@ -2035,9 +2035,7 @@ static int __udp_queue_rcv_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> int is_udplite = IS_UDPLITE(sk);
>
> /* Note that an ENOMEM error is charged twice */
> - if (rc == -ENOMEM)
> - UDP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS,
> - is_udplite);
> + UDP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS, is_udplite);
> UDP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_INERRORS, is_udplite);
> kfree_skb(skb);
> trace_udp_fail_queue_rcv_skb(rc, sk);
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> index 29d9691359b9..d5e23b150fd9 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> @@ -634,9 +634,7 @@ static int __udpv6_queue_rcv_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> int is_udplite = IS_UDPLITE(sk);
>
> /* Note that an ENOMEM error is charged twice */
> - if (rc == -ENOMEM)
> - UDP6_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk),
> - UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS, is_udplite);
> + UDP6_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS, is_udplite);
> UDP6_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_INERRORS, is_udplite);
> kfree_skb(skb);
> return -1;

The diffstat is nice, but I'm unsure we can do this kind of change
(well, I really think we should not do it): it will fool any kind of
existing users (application, scripts, admin) currently reading the
above counters and expecting UDP_MIB_RCVBUFERRORS being increased with
the existing schema.

Cheers,

Paolo