[Bridge] [PATCH] net, bridge: print log message after state changed

Holger Brunck holger.brunck at keymile.com
Fri Nov 18 09:30:31 UTC 2011


On 11/17/2011 08:23 PM, David Lamparter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:07:49AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>>>> The message is therefore appropriately timed as far as I'm concerned.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's not.
>>>
>>> Please test: create a bridge with STP disabled, add an interface to the
>>> bridge and set that interface down. You get the message "... entering
>>> forwarding state". That's wrong because it's "about to enter" disabled
>>> state some lines later.
>>>
>>> All other (4) calls to br_log_state are located after the state change,
>>> see for example br_stp_enable_port() just some lines above the patch.
>>
>> I would never expect an "entering" message to print out after the event
>> happens, and in fact I'd _always_ want to see it beforehand so that if
>> the state change caused a crash or similar it'd be that much easier
>> to pinpoint the proper location.
> 
> There seems to be a misunderstanding here. The patch effectively does:
> -       br_log_state(p);
>         p->state = BR_STATE_DISABLED;
> +       br_log_state(p);
> 
> and the issue it is trying to fix is not the timing but rather the code
> printing the wrong (old, now-left) state.
> 

Yes exactly this is the problem. We got confusing state messages in the current
implementation.

> I do agree that the log message should be printed before anything
> happens, so, Holger, can you brew a patch that does that?
> 

This can't be changed easily. Because in some situations we don't know which
state we will enter at the entry point of the function.

For example  br_make_forwarding does something like
if ..
  p->state = STATE_A
else if ...
  p->state = STATE_B
....

So my approach would be to change the log message from "port entering state" to
"port entered state" and print it out after the state changed.

Regards
Holger




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