[PATCH iproute2 v3 1/2] ip: ipstats: Merge statistics split across several netlink messages
From: Alexander Zubkov <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-10 09:21:30
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
The kernel can split the statistics of one interface across several
netlink messages. ipstats_dump_one() formats every message on its
own, so the interface is shown twice and the attributes of the second
message are dropped:
109: vlan859: group offload subgroup l3_stats on used on
109: vlan859: group offload subgroup l3_stats
Buffer the message instead, merge into it the following messages with
the same ifindex, and format it once another ifindex shows up or the
dump ends.
Fixes: 54d82b0699a0 ("ip: Add a new family of commands, "stats"")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Alexander Zubkov <redacted>
---
v3:
- Merge rewritten along the lines Stephen suggested: no attribute
counting, no classifier, no refusal. Only the top-level nest and,
for bridge xstats, the one inside it can be reopened.
- The invariants moved from the cover letter into the comment above
ipstats_merge_attrs().
- Mask rta_type with NLA_TYPE_MASK, drop the dead addattr_nest() NULL
checks, malloc instead of calloc, no err out-parameter and no
separate ipstats_msg_merge().
- One deviation from suggested version: the depth == 2 test is moved
above the two scans. At that depth there might be no nested
attributes.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260908181225.31712-1-green@qrator.net/ (local)
- Trimmed the comments and the commit message.
- Dropped IPSTATS_MERGE_MAX_DEPTH.
- Only the boundary attributes are merged.
- All of the merging decision is in ipstats_merge_classify().
- Do not index ipstats_stat_ifla_max[] with attribute type 0 (padding).
- Use addraw_l() to copy attributes.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260830181949.1096-1-green@qrator.net/ (local)
Notes:
- Reproduced on Linux 7.1.5 / iproute2-7.0.0, Mellanox MSN4600C with 121
netdevices, 31 with l3_stats; the split is visible in strace sa two
RTM_NEWSTATS messages with the same ifindex.
- The merge was also exercised by Claude out of tree against offload
xstats cut between HW_S_INFO and L3_STATS, bridge per-VLAN xstats cut
between two BRIDGE_XSTATS_VLAN entries, and a leaf attribute in both
messages.
ip/ipstats.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 133 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ip/ipstats.c b/ip/ipstats.c
index 8a2ac85e..1d44fe47 100644
--- a/ip/ipstats.c
+++ b/ip/ipstats.c@@ -850,12 +850,68 @@ ipstats_show_one(int ifindex, struct ipstats_stat_enabled *enabled) return err; } -static int ipstats_dump_one(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg) +/* The kernel resumes a split dump by reopening the top-level nest it stopped + * in and, for bridge xstats, the nest inside that. Everything below is whole + * and nothing at those two levels repeats, so join the two halves at the + * boundary and copy the rest. + */ +static int ipstats_merge_attrs(struct nlmsghdr *n, int maxlen, + struct rtattr *a, int alen, + struct rtattr *b, int blen, int depth) +{ + struct rtattr *last = NULL, *rta, *nest; + unsigned short type; + int rem; + + if (depth == 2) + goto copy; + + /* type 0 is 64-bit padding, possibly on either side of the split */ + for (rta = a, rem = alen; RTA_OK(rta, rem); rta = RTA_NEXT(rta, rem)) + if (rta->rta_type) + last = rta; + while (RTA_OK(b, blen) && !b->rta_type) + b = RTA_NEXT(b, blen); + if (!last || !RTA_OK(b, blen)) + goto copy; + + type = last->rta_type & NLA_TYPE_MASK; + if (type != (b->rta_type & NLA_TYPE_MASK) || + (!depth && (type > IFLA_STATS_MAX || !ipstats_stat_ifla_max[type]))) + goto copy; + + if (addraw_l(n, maxlen, a, (char *)last - (char *)a)) + return -EMSGSIZE; + + nest = addattr_nest(n, maxlen, last->rta_type); + if (ipstats_merge_attrs(n, maxlen, RTA_DATA(last), RTA_PAYLOAD(last), + RTA_DATA(b), RTA_PAYLOAD(b), depth + 1)) + return -EMSGSIZE; + addattr_nest_end(n, nest); + + b = RTA_NEXT(b, blen); + return addraw_l(n, maxlen, b, blen) ? -EMSGSIZE : 0; +copy: + if (addraw_l(n, maxlen, a, alen) || addraw_l(n, maxlen, b, blen)) + return -EMSGSIZE; + return 0; +} + +struct ipstats_dump_ctx { + struct ipstats_stat_enabled *enabled; + struct nlmsghdr *pending; +}; + +static int ipstats_dump_pending(struct ipstats_dump_ctx *ctx) { - struct ipstats_stat_enabled *enabled = arg; int rc; - rc = ipstats_process_ifsm(stdout, n, enabled); + if (ctx->pending == NULL) + return 0; + + rc = ipstats_process_ifsm(stdout, ctx->pending, ctx->enabled); + free(ctx->pending); + ctx->pending = NULL; if (rc) return rc;
@@ -863,9 +919,78 @@ static int ipstats_dump_one(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg) return 0; } +#define IFSM_PAYLOAD(n) NLMSG_PAYLOAD(n, sizeof(struct if_stats_msg)) + +static int ipstats_dump_merge(struct ipstats_dump_ctx *ctx, struct nlmsghdr *n) +{ + int hdrlen = NLMSG_LENGTH(sizeof(struct if_stats_msg)); + int maxlen = ctx->pending->nlmsg_len + n->nlmsg_len; + struct nlmsghdr *merged; + int rc; + + merged = malloc(maxlen); + if (merged == NULL) { + fprintf(stderr, "Error merging netlink answer: %s\n", + strerror(errno)); + return -errno; + } + + memcpy(merged, ctx->pending, hdrlen); + merged->nlmsg_len = hdrlen; + + rc = ipstats_merge_attrs(merged, maxlen, + IFLA_STATS_RTA(NLMSG_DATA(ctx->pending)), + IFSM_PAYLOAD(ctx->pending), + IFLA_STATS_RTA(NLMSG_DATA(n)), + IFSM_PAYLOAD(n), 0); + if (rc) { + free(merged); + return rc; + } + + free(ctx->pending); + ctx->pending = merged; + return 0; +} + +static int ipstats_dump_one(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg) +{ + struct ipstats_dump_ctx *ctx = arg; + int rc; + + if (IFSM_PAYLOAD(n) < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "BUG: wrong nlmsg len %d\n", n->nlmsg_len); + return -EINVAL; + } + + if (ctx->pending != NULL) { + const struct if_stats_msg *pending = NLMSG_DATA(ctx->pending); + const struct if_stats_msg *ifsm = NLMSG_DATA(n); + + if (pending->ifindex == ifsm->ifindex) + return ipstats_dump_merge(ctx, n); + + rc = ipstats_dump_pending(ctx); + if (rc) + return rc; + } + + ctx->pending = malloc(n->nlmsg_len); + if (ctx->pending == NULL) { + fprintf(stderr, "Error saving netlink answer: %s\n", + strerror(errno)); + return -ENOMEM; + } + + memcpy(ctx->pending, n, n->nlmsg_len); + return 0; +} + static int ipstats_dump(struct ipstats_stat_enabled *enabled) { - int rc = 0; + struct ipstats_dump_ctx ctx = { + .enabled = enabled, + }; if (rtnl_statsdump_req_filter(&rth, PF_UNSPEC, 0, ipstats_req_add_filters,
@@ -874,12 +999,13 @@ static int ipstats_dump(struct ipstats_stat_enabled *enabled) return -2; } - if (rtnl_dump_filter(&rth, ipstats_dump_one, enabled) < 0) { + if (rtnl_dump_filter(&rth, ipstats_dump_one, &ctx) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Dump terminated\n"); - rc = -2; + free(ctx.pending); + return -2; } - return rc; + return ipstats_dump_pending(&ctx); } static int
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