linux-kernel - [PATCH V2 10/12] virtio-net: don't let virtio core to validate used length

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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:52:25 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:     virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, f.hetzelt@...berlin.de,
        david.kaplan@....com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com
Subject: [PATCH V2 10/12] virtio-net: don't let virtio core to validate used length

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@...hat.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..f2f9ea167020 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),
+	.validate_used = true,
 	.driver.name =	KBUILD_MODNAME,
 	.driver.owner =	THIS_MODULE,
 	.id_table =	id_table,
-- 
2.25.1