[PATCH net] net: netconsole: fix wrong warning

[PATCH net] net: netconsole: fix wrong warning

[Breno Leitao]

A warning is triggered when there is insufficient space in the buffer
for userdata. However, this is not an issue since userdata will be sent
in the next iteration.

Current warning message:

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
     WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 3013042 at drivers/net/netconsole.c:1122 write_ext_msg+0x3b6/0x3d0
      ? write_ext_msg+0x3b6/0x3d0
      console_flush_all+0x1e9/0x330

The code incorrectly issues a warning when this_chunk is zero, which is
a valid scenario. The warning should only be triggered when this_chunk
is negative.

Fixes: 1ec9daf95093 ("net: netconsole: append userdata to fragmented netconsole messages")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/netconsole.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 01cf33fa7503..de20928f7402 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -1161,8 +1161,14 @@ static void send_ext_msg_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg,
 
 			this_chunk = min(userdata_len - sent_userdata,
 					 MAX_PRINT_CHUNK - preceding_bytes);
-			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(this_chunk <= 0))
+			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(this_chunk < 0))
+				/* this_chunk could be zero if all the previous
+				 * message used all the buffer. This is not a
+				 * problem, userdata will be sent in the next
+				 * iteration
+				 */
 				return;
+
 			memcpy(buf + this_header + this_offset,
 			       userdata + sent_userdata,
 			       this_chunk);
-- 
2.43.5

Re: [PATCH net] net: netconsole: fix wrong warning

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Tue,  8 Oct 2024 02:43:24 -0700 you wrote:
> A warning is triggered when there is insufficient space in the buffer
> for userdata. However, this is not an issue since userdata will be sent
> in the next iteration.
> 
> Current warning message:
> 
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: netconsole: fix wrong warning
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/d94785bb46b6

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