netcons: Add udp send fail statistics to netconsole

Enhance observability of netconsole. Packet sends can fail.
Start tracking at least two failure possibilities: ENOMEM and
NET_XMIT_DROP for every target. Stats are exposed via an additional
attribute in CONFIGFS.

The exposed statistics allows easier debugging of cases when netconsole
messages were not seen by receivers, eliminating the guesswork if the
sender thinks that messages in question were sent out.

Stats are not reset on enable/disable/change remote ip/etc, they
belong to the netcons target itself.

Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZsWoUzyK5du9Ffl+@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Maksym Kutsevol <max@kutsevol.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241202-netcons-add-udp-send-fail-statistics-to-netconsole-v5-2-70e82239f922@kutsevol.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ To remove a target::
 
 The interface exposes these parameters of a netconsole target to userspace:
 
-	==============  =================================       ============
+	=============== =================================       ============
 	enabled		Is this target currently enabled?	(read-write)
 	extended	Extended mode enabled			(read-write)
 	release		Prepend kernel release to message	(read-write)
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ The interface exposes these parameters of a netconsole target to userspace:
 	remote_ip	Remote agent's IP address		(read-write)
 	local_mac	Local interface's MAC address		(read-only)
 	remote_mac	Remote agent's MAC address		(read-write)
-	==============  =================================       ============
+	transmit_errors	Number of packet send errors		(read-only)
+	=============== =================================       ============
 
 The "enabled" attribute is also used to control whether the parameters of
 a target can be updated or not -- you can modify the parameters of only

drivers/net/netconsole.c

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/inet.h>
 #include <linux/configfs.h>
 #include <linux/etherdevice.h>
+#include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
 
@@ -90,13 +91,20 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(target_cleanup_list_lock);
  */
 static struct console netconsole_ext;
 
+struct netconsole_target_stats  {
+	u64_stats_t xmit_drop_count;
+	u64_stats_t enomem_count;
+	struct u64_stats_sync syncp;
+};
+
 /**
  * struct netconsole_target - Represents a configured netconsole target.
  * @list:	Links this target into the target_list.
  * @group:	Links us into the configfs subsystem hierarchy.
  * @userdata_group:	Links to the userdata configfs hierarchy
  * @userdata_complete:	Cached, formatted string of append
  * @userdata_length:	String length of userdata_complete
+ * @stats:	Packet send stats for the target. Used for debugging.
  * @enabled:	On / off knob to enable / disable target.
  *		Visible from userspace (read-write).
  *		We maintain a strict 1:1 correspondence between this and
@@ -124,6 +132,7 @@ struct netconsole_target {
 	char userdata_complete[MAX_USERDATA_ENTRY_LENGTH * MAX_USERDATA_ITEMS];
 	size_t			userdata_length;
 #endif
+	struct netconsole_target_stats stats;
 	bool			enabled;
 	bool			extended;
 	bool			release;
@@ -262,6 +271,7 @@ static void netconsole_process_cleanups_core(void)
  *				|	remote_ip
  *				|	local_mac
  *				|	remote_mac
+ *				|	transmit_errors
  *				|	userdata/
  *				|		<key>/
  *				|			value
@@ -371,6 +381,21 @@ static ssize_t remote_mac_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
 	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pM\n", to_target(item)->np.remote_mac);
 }
 
+static ssize_t transmit_errors_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
+{
+	struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
+	u64 xmit_drop_count, enomem_count;
+	unsigned int start;
+
+	do {
+		start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&nt->stats.syncp);
+		xmit_drop_count = u64_stats_read(&nt->stats.xmit_drop_count);
+		enomem_count = u64_stats_read(&nt->stats.enomem_count);
+	} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&nt->stats.syncp, start));
+
+	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%llu\n", xmit_drop_count + enomem_count);
+}
+
 /*
  * This one is special -- targets created through the configfs interface
  * are not enabled (and the corresponding netpoll activated) by default.
@@ -842,6 +867,7 @@ CONFIGFS_ATTR(, remote_ip);
 CONFIGFS_ATTR_RO(, local_mac);
 CONFIGFS_ATTR(, remote_mac);
 CONFIGFS_ATTR(, release);
+CONFIGFS_ATTR_RO(, transmit_errors);
 
 static struct configfs_attribute *netconsole_target_attrs[] = {
 	&attr_enabled,
@@ -854,6 +880,7 @@ static struct configfs_attribute *netconsole_target_attrs[] = {
 	&attr_remote_ip,
 	&attr_local_mac,
 	&attr_remote_mac,
+	&attr_transmit_errors,
 	NULL,
 };
 
@@ -1058,6 +1085,33 @@ static struct notifier_block netconsole_netdev_notifier = {
 	.notifier_call  = netconsole_netdev_event,
 };
 
+/**
+ * send_udp - Wrapper for netpoll_send_udp that counts errors
+ * @nt: target to send message to
+ * @msg: message to send
+ * @len: length of message
+ *
+ * Calls netpoll_send_udp and classifies the return value. If an error
+ * occurred it increments statistics in nt->stats accordingly.
+ * Only calls netpoll_send_udp if CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC is disabled.
+ */
+static void send_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg, int len)
+{
+	int result = netpoll_send_udp(&nt->np, msg, len);
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC)) {
+		if (result == NET_XMIT_DROP) {
+			u64_stats_update_begin(&nt->stats.syncp);
+			u64_stats_inc(&nt->stats.xmit_drop_count);
+			u64_stats_update_end(&nt->stats.syncp);
+		} else if (result == -ENOMEM) {
+			u64_stats_update_begin(&nt->stats.syncp);
+			u64_stats_inc(&nt->stats.enomem_count);
+			u64_stats_update_end(&nt->stats.syncp);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 static void send_msg_no_fragmentation(struct netconsole_target *nt,
 				      const char *msg,
 				      int msg_len,
@@ -1085,7 +1139,7 @@ static void send_msg_no_fragmentation(struct netconsole_target *nt,
 				     MAX_PRINT_CHUNK - msg_len,
 				     "%s", userdata);
 
-	netpoll_send_udp(&nt->np, buf, msg_len);
+	send_udp(nt, buf, msg_len);
 }
 
 static void append_release(char *buf)
@@ -1178,7 +1232,7 @@ static void send_fragmented_body(struct netconsole_target *nt, char *buf,
 			this_offset += this_chunk;
 		}
 
-		netpoll_send_udp(&nt->np, buf, this_header + this_offset);
+		send_udp(nt, buf, this_header + this_offset);
 		offset += this_offset;
 	}
 }
@@ -1288,7 +1342,7 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *con, const char *msg, unsigned int len)
 			tmp = msg;
 			for (left = len; left;) {
 				frag = min(left, MAX_PRINT_CHUNK);
-				netpoll_send_udp(&nt->np, tmp, frag);
+				send_udp(nt, tmp, frag);
 				tmp += frag;
 				left -= frag;
 			}