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2023 Feb 22
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[patch net-next v2] net: virtio_net: implement exact header length guest feature
...upper limit of size in tap which is checked.
> >> I assume that for hw implementation, that would be the same.
> >
> >A device cannot blindly trust a hdr_len passed from a driver. We have
> >had bugs in the kernel with this before, such as the one fixed in
> >commit 57031eb79490 ("packet: round up linear to header len").
> >
> >> But anyway, this discussion would be rather part of the spec/device
> >> patch, don't you think?
> >
> >I disagree. If it's not much effort to make a commit self-documenting
> >that is pr...