[PATCH net-next V2] virtio-net: don't do header check for dodgy gso packets

From: Jason Wang
Date: Tue Dec 23 2014 - 22:04:12 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from V1:
- typo fixes
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index b8bd719..45c6ce2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1761,6 +1761,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_ECN))
dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO_ECN;

+ dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST;
+
if (gso)
dev->features |= dev->hw_features & NETIF_F_ALL_TSO;
/* (!csum && gso) case will be fixed by register_netdev() */
--
1.9.1

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