On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 10:39:00 CEST Wentao Liang wrote:
In batadv_tvlv_unicast_send(), the return value of
batadv_send_skb_to_orig() is ignored. This could silently
drop send failures, making it difficult to detect connectivity
issues.
Add error checking for batadv_send_skb_to_orig() and log failures
via batadv_dbg() to improve error visibility.
This looks more like patch you've added for printk-debugging and nothing for
stable. And you ignore that it can also return things like -EINPROGRESS. Which
is not an error.
You can also see that this was just for printk-debugging because the error
class and message has nothing to do with the actual code.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fixes: 1ad5bcb2a032 ("batman-adv: Consume skb in batadv_send_skb_to_orig")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.10+
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <redacted>
---
net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
index 2a583215d439..f081136cc5b7 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
@@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ void batadv_tvlv_unicast_send(struct batadv_priv
*bat_priv, const u8 *src,
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
unsigned char *tvlv_buff;
unsigned int tvlv_len;
ssize_t hdr_len = sizeof(*unicast_tvlv_packet);
+ int r;
orig_node = batadv_orig_hash_find(bat_priv, dst);
if (!orig_node)
@@ -657,7 +658,10 @@ void batadv_tvlv_unicast_send(struct batadv_priv
*bat_priv, const u8 *src,
tvlv_buff += sizeof(*tvlv_hdr);
memcpy(tvlv_buff, tvlv_value, tvlv_value_len);
- batadv_send_skb_to_orig(skb, orig_node, NULL);
+ r = batadv_send_skb_to_orig(skb, orig_node, NULL);
+ if (r != NET_XMIT_SUCCESS)
+ batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_TP_METER, bat_priv,
+ "Fail to send the ack.");
No, this is definitely the wrong error class. And why do you think that it is
an ack?
out:
batadv_orig_node_put(orig_node);
}
Kind regards,
Sven