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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: <edward.cree@amd.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-net-drivers@amd.com>,
	<davem@davemloft.net>, <pabeni@redhat.com>, <edumazet@google.com>,
	<habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com>, <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	<marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>, Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] netlink: add support for formatted extack messages
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:29:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221013082913.0719721e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26c2cf2e699de83905e2c21491b71af0e34d00d8.1665567166.git.ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>

On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:23:00 +0100 edward.cree@amd.com wrote:
> +	if (snprintf(__extack->_msg_buf, NETLINK_MAX_FMTMSG_LEN,	\
> +		     (fmt), ##args) >= NETLINK_MAX_FMTMSG_LEN)		\
> +		net_warn_ratelimited("truncated extack: " fmt "\n",	\
> +				     ##args);				\
> +									\

Some "take it or leave it" comments:
 - Jiri's idea of always printing may be worth exploring
 - my preference would also be to produce a warning on overflow,
   rather than the exact print, because I always worry about people
   starting to depend on the print.

   And WARN_ON() is really heavy and may trigger remediations even
   tho truncated extack is just a minor nuisance.

   I'd do:

   pr(extack formatting overflow $__FILE__:$__func__:$__LINE__ $needed_len)
   
   (I think splicing the "trunced extack:" with fmt will result
    in the format string getting stored in .ro twice?)

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-13 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-13  9:22 [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] netlink: formatted extacks edward.cree
2022-10-13  9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] netlink: add support for formatted extack messages edward.cree
2022-10-13 15:29   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-10-13 16:16     ` Johannes Berg
2022-10-13 16:32       ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-17 12:04     ` Edward Cree
2022-10-17 18:40       ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-13  9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] sfc: use formatted extacks instead of efx_tc_err() edward.cree
2022-10-13  9:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] sfc: remove 'log-tc-errors' ethtool private flag edward.cree

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