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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-01-29 19:38:27 -0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-01-31 12:35:27 -0800 |
| commit | fdf3f6800be36377e045e2448087f12132b88d2f (patch) | |
| tree | 820b5ab869b1c58ad0408e2de3102b3e49a6b80b /net | |
| parent | 6d06bc83a5ae8777a5f7a81c32dd75b8d9b2fe04 (diff) | |
net: don't touch dev->stats in BPF redirect paths
Gal reports that BPF redirect increments dev->stats.tx_errors
on failure. This is not correct, most modern drivers completely
ignore dev->stats so these drops will be invisible to the user.
Core code should use the dedicated core stats which are folded
into device stats in dev_get_stats().
Note that we're switching from tx_errors to tx_dropped.
Core only has tx_dropped, hence presumably users already expect
that counter to increment for "stack" Tx issues.
Reported-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/c5df3b60-246a-4030-9c9a-0a35cd1ca924@nvidia.com
Fixes: b4ab31414970 ("bpf: Add redirect_neigh helper as redirect drop-in")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260130033827.698841-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/filter.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c index bcd73d9bd764..029e560e32ce 100644 --- a/net/core/filter.c +++ b/net/core/filter.c @@ -2289,12 +2289,12 @@ static int __bpf_redirect_neigh_v6(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, err = bpf_out_neigh_v6(net, skb, dev, nh); if (unlikely(net_xmit_eval(err))) - DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + dev_core_stats_tx_dropped_inc(dev); else ret = NET_XMIT_SUCCESS; goto out_xmit; out_drop: - DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + dev_core_stats_tx_dropped_inc(dev); kfree_skb(skb); out_xmit: return ret; @@ -2396,12 +2396,12 @@ static int __bpf_redirect_neigh_v4(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, err = bpf_out_neigh_v4(net, skb, dev, nh); if (unlikely(net_xmit_eval(err))) - DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + dev_core_stats_tx_dropped_inc(dev); else ret = NET_XMIT_SUCCESS; goto out_xmit; out_drop: - DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + dev_core_stats_tx_dropped_inc(dev); kfree_skb(skb); out_xmit: return ret; |
