On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 10:03:01 +0100 Edward Cree wrote:

On 29/09/2022 02:15, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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Hm. I wonder if throwing a tracepoint into the extack setting
machinery would be a reasonable stop gap for debugging.  

It has one (do_trace_netlink_extack()), but sadly that won't play
 so well with formatted extacks since AIUI trace needs a constant
 string (I'm just giving it the format string in my prototype).
But yeah it's better than nothing.

We can add a new one which copies the data. Presumably we'd have a "set
an extack msg which needs to be freed" helper were we could place it?
It'd mean we cut off at a static length but good enough, I say.