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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] TCP: make seq # error messages more readable
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 06:38:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <175f5cd8-c242-b89b-3ca8-2dfc43e730f7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48586224-eb36-2489-735c-4946cb0b1c2b@infradead.org>



On 07/12/2018 05:48 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> 
> Attempt to make cryptic TCP seq number error messages clearer by
> (1) adding the function name, (2) identifying the errors as "seq # bug",
> and (3) grouping the field identifiers and values by separating them
> with commas.
> 
> E.g., the following message is changed from:
> 
> recvmsg bug 2: copied 73BCB6CD seq 70F17CBE rcvnxt 73BCB9AA fl 0
> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1501 at /linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c:1881 tcp_recvmsg+0x649/0xb90
> 
> to:
> 
> tcp_recvmsg: TCP recvmsg seq # bug 2: copied 73BCB6CD, seq 70F17CBE, rcvnxt 73BCB9AA, fl 0
> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1501 at /linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c:2011 tcp_recvmsg+0x694/0xba0
> 

Hi Randy

It is not clear what this patch improves.
Do we really to mention tcp twice ?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-13 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-13  0:48 [PATCH net-next] TCP: make seq # error messages more readable Randy Dunlap
2018-07-13 13:38 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2018-07-13 16:48   ` Randy Dunlap

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