* [PATCH net-next] net: Add net_cookie to Dead loop messages
@ 2026-04-03 22:13 Chris J Arges
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From: Chris J Arges @ 2026-04-03 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
Simon Horman, David Ahern
Cc: kernel-team, Chris J Arges, netdev, linux-kernel
Network devices can have the same name within different network namespaces.
To help distinguish these devices, add the net_cookie value which can be
used to identify the netns.
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <carges@cloudflare.com>
---
net/core/dev.c | 4 ++--
net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 831129f2a69b..a9718fe9d12c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4875,8 +4875,8 @@ int __dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *sb_dev)
* unfortunately
*/
recursion_alert:
- net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s, fix it urgently!\n",
- dev->name);
+ net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s (net %llu), fix it urgently!\n",
+ dev->name, dev_net(dev)->net_cookie);
rc = -ENETDOWN;
}
}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
index 5683c328990f..a41bcf7ddc06 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ void iptunnel_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct rtable *rt, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (unlikely(dev_recursion_level() > IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT)) {
if (dev) {
- net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s, fix it urgently!\n",
- dev->name);
+ net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s (net %llu), fix it urgently!\n",
+ dev->name, dev_net(dev)->net_cookie);
DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors);
}
ip_rt_put(rt);
--
2.43.0
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