Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/4] net: tap: track dropped skb via kfree_skb_reason()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Mar 01 2022 - 21:42:18 EST


On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:49:27 -0800 Dongli Zhang wrote:
> + SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_CSUM, /* sk_buff checksum error */

Can we spell it out a little more? It sounds like the checksum was
incorrect. Will it be clear that computing the checksum failed, rather
than checksum validation failed?

> + SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_COPY_DATA, /* failed to copy data from or to
> + * sk_buff
> + */

Here should we specify that it's copying from user space?

> + SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_GSO_SEG, /* gso segmentation error */
> + SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_HDR, /* there is something wrong with
> + * device driver specific header
> + */

How about:
device driver specific header / metadata was invalid

to broaden the scope also to devices which don't transfer the metadata
in form of a header?

> + SKB_DROP_REASON_FULL_RING, /* ring buffer is full */