[PATCH V3 08/10] virtio-net: don't let virtio core to validate used length

Jason Wang
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:01:50 -0000

For RX virtuqueue, the used length is validated in all the three paths
(big, small and mergeable). For control vq, we never tries to use used
length. So this patch forbids the core to validate the used length.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 79bd2585ec6b..6a8b52aed05f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -3384,6 +3384,7 @@ static struct virtio_driver virtio_net_driver = {
 	.feature_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(features),
 	.feature_table_legacy = features_legacy,
 	.feature_table_size_legacy = ARRAY_SIZE(features_legacy),
+	.suppress_used_validation = true,
 	.driver.name =	KBUILD_MODNAME,
 	.driver.owner =	THIS_MODULE,
 	.id_table =	id_table,
--
2.25.1