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virtio-net: don't do header check for dodgy gso packets 

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jason Wang 2014-12-24 11:03:52 +08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent dd45077799
commit 41f2f1273c
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@ -1759,6 +1759,8 @@ 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() */