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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Brenda Butler <bjb@mojatatu.com>,
	gabor@mojatatu.com
Subject: Re: send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:04:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aa1de3e-19c4-91bd-c0d6-a61f32fa6876@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161025103416.GG2958@localhost.localdomain>

On 16-10-25 06:34 AM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 05:05:41PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
>>>> in case [1], user can't see the ENOMEM, ENOMEM is more like

>
> Thing is, it may lead to duplicate messages in Application layer, as the
> msg that was errored out may have been actually queued and later
> retransmitted.
>
> That's why I said the recovery steps from this depends on the
> application on top of SCTP, if it can handle such duplicate messages or
> not.

Yes, I was worried about duplicate messages.
Which is a bug on SCTP implementation on Linux, unfortunately. IOW,
transport should take care of duplicates - not the app.
i.e any app change is a workaround which will be  unnecessary in newer
kernels.

cheers,
jamal

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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Brenda Butler <bjb@mojatatu.com>,
	gabor@mojatatu.com
Subject: Re: send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:04:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aa1de3e-19c4-91bd-c0d6-a61f32fa6876@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161025103416.GG2958@localhost.localdomain>

On 16-10-25 06:34 AM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 05:05:41PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
>>>> in case [1], user can't see the ENOMEM, ENOMEM is more like

>
> Thing is, it may lead to duplicate messages in Application layer, as the
> msg that was errored out may have been actually queued and later
> retransmitted.
>
> That's why I said the recovery steps from this depends on the
> application on top of SCTP, if it can handle such duplicate messages or
> not.

Yes, I was worried about duplicate messages.
Which is a bug on SCTP implementation on Linux, unfortunately. IOW,
transport should take care of duplicates - not the app.
i.e any app change is a workaround which will be  unnecessary in newer
kernels.

cheers,
jamal


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-23 15:03 send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_t Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-10-23 15:32 ` Fwd: send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-10-23 15:32   ` Fwd: send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pac Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-10-23 18:20   ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Xin Long
2016-10-23 18:20     ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack Xin Long
2016-10-23 19:52     ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-10-23 19:52       ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-10-24  6:30       ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Xin Long
2016-10-24  6:30         ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack Xin Long
2016-10-24 11:48         ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2016-10-24 11:48           ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2016-10-24 12:38         ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-10-24 12:38           ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-10-25  9:05           ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Xin Long
2016-10-25  9:05             ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack Xin Long
2016-10-25 10:34             ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_packet_transmit Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2016-10-25 10:34               ` send/sendmsg ENOMEM errors WAS(Re: [PATCH net 6/6] sctp: not return ENOMEM err back in sctp_pack Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2016-10-25 11:04               ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2016-10-25 11:04                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim

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