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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jasowang@redhat.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mst@redhat.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2] virtio-net: don't do header check for dodgy gso packets
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:53:50 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141230.185350.1886821773938320675.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1419390232-14906-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com>

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:03:52 +0800

> There's no need to do header check for virtio-net since:
> 
> - Host sets dodgy for all gso packets from guest and check the header.
> - Host should be prepared for all kinds of evil packets from guest, since
>   malicious guest can send any kinds of packet.
> 
> So this patch sets NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST for virtio-net to skip the check.
> 
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes from V1:
> - typo fixes

Applied.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-30 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-24  3:03 Jason Wang
2014-12-30 23:53 ` David Miller [this message]

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