netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] vhost-net: fix handle

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 16:05:53 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Basil Gor <basil.gor@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] vhost-net: fix handle_rx buffer size

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:55:23PM +0400, Basil Gor wrote:
>> Take vlan header length into account, when vlan id is stored as
>> vlan_tci. Otherwise tagged packets comming from macvtap will be
>> truncated.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Basil Gor <basil.gor@...il.com>
>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>
> This doesn't fix packet socket backends but that can be
> handled separately later.

Yes that seems good enough.

Let me recommend just taking the packet out of the socket queue
instead of calling the recvmsg method.  Since vhost/net.c is
already munging with the queue directly that should make
it easy to avoid the peculiarities of pf_packet sockets
for reporting vlan information.

Eric
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