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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:51:40 -0400
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Packet loss when 'control' messages are present with large data (sendmsg(2))
Message-ID:  <20140826195140.GA10143@charmander.home>
In-Reply-To: <201408261515.32146.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <522300E3.6050303@rawbw.com> <2204059.7tqSNWvxzC@ralph.baldwin.cx> <CAOtMX2gkUBPOc4o4qRbUTdv_YOiQOVDuxXBkQZEAiez6i07NAg@mail.gmail.com> <201408261515.32146.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:15:31PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:05:12 am Alan Somers wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:52 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Friday, August 22, 2014 01:34:28 PM Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > >>  Bezüglich Yuri's Nachricht vom 02.09.2013 06:54 (localtime):
> > >> > Please check in this patch:
> > >> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=181741
> > >> > Please MFC into 9.X
> > >> >
> > >> > Description of the problem is within PR.
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> > Yuri
> > >>
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I guess this fix should make it into 10.1.
> > >> Can someone check please?
> > >
> > > A fix has to make into HEAD first.  I've cc'd Alan who responded to the bug.
> > > Alan, note that glebius@ already committed the test case to HEAD a while ago.
> > 
> > First, Gleb's testcase needs to be converted to ATF.  This would be a
> > good exercise for anybody who's new to ATF and wants some practice.
> > Anybody interested?
> 
> While that would be nice, I don't know that it's quite fair to require the
> test to be converted before working on a possible fix.  The existing test
> doesn't seem that hard to run by hand:
> 
> % cd work/freebsd/head/tools/regression/sockets/unix_passfd/
> % make
> ...
> % > ./unix_passfd 
> beginning test1-simplesendfd
> test1-simplesendfd passed
> ...
> beginning test8-rigths+creds+payload
> unix_passfd: test8-rigths+creds+payload: recvmsg: 24 bytes received
> 
> I only say this because in the bug followup you seemed to have described a
> possible solution so it seems that you would be able to develop a fix quicker
> than other folks since you are already familiar with the issues involved.
> (Also, you've fixed other related issues recently.)

As it happens, I went ahead and did this anyway:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D689



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