[Bug 253836] ifconfig reports 2x actual received bytes with em / igb

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            Bug ID: 253836
           Summary: ifconfig reports 2x actual received bytes with em /
                    igb
           Product: Base System
           Version: 13.0-STABLE
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: eborisch+FreeBSD at gmail.com

As reported here:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-February/093170.html
and now reproduced on a Thinkpad X230, on 13.0-BETA3:

Isssue: ifconfig reports 2x the received bytes compared to what is reported via
dev.(igb|em).<n>.mac_stats.good_octets_recvd. The octets_recvd count lines (~)
up with the expected count based on known traffic.

This is new on 13.

Copy of my original report to the mailing list:

The incoming bytes on an intel I211 (em/igb) are being counted twice
somewhere in the path that is queried by netstat and zabbix_agentd (which
definitely uses ifmib.)

My 'cable' interface is dev.igb.0; the system is live, so counts are going
to keep going up, too.

$ sysctl dev.igb.0 | grep octet
dev.igb.0.mac_stats.good_octets_txd: 4836948514
dev.igb.0.mac_stats.good_octets_recvd: 17402549118

$ netstat -I cable -b | column -t
Name   Mtu   Network        Address            Ipkts     Ierrs  Idrop
 Ibytes       Opkts    Oerrs  Obytes      Coll
cable  1500  <Link#1>       00:0d:b9:55:70:08  31197172  0      0
 34681776974  9401856  0      4793050336  0
cable  -     199.48.95.0/2  1500922-static.ro  94275     -      -
 24989369     106396   -      9906685     -

$ zabbix_agentd -t 'net.if.in[cable]'
net.if.in[cable]                              [u|34684619970]

Note the octets_txd (which should be a little bigger than obytes) is very
close to netstat's Obytes (obytes):
 4836948514  ~= 4793050336

But octets_recvd (which should be a little bigger than ibytes) is ~ 1/2 of
netstat/zabbix's (ifmib's) ibytes.
  17402549118 ~= 34681776974 / 2

I can run known traffic across an interface, and the octets_recvd are
hanging with the expected change, while netstat's and zabbix's are at 2x.

I'm running a custom kernel, but I was running the same on 12.2, as well,
and this only crept up on 13. I don't have 13 running on anything with
different hardware to compare, unfortunately.

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