netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] pktgen: Fix invalid clone

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Date:   Mon, 2 Aug 2021 10:21:00 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Nicholas Richardson <richardsonnick@...gle.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, nrrichar@...u.edu, arunkaly@...gle.com,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Leesoo Ahn <dev@...eel.net>, Di Zhu <zhudi21@...wei.com>,
        Yejune Deng <yejune.deng@...il.com>,
        Ye Bin <yebin10@...wei.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pktgen: Fix invalid clone_skb override

On Mon,  2 Aug 2021 17:12:07 +0000 Nicholas Richardson wrote:
> From: Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@...gle.com>
> 
> When the netif_receive xmit_mode is set, a line is supposed to set
> clone_skb to a default 0 value. This line is not reached due to a line
> that checks if clone_skb is more than zero and returns -ENOTSUPP.
> 
> Removes line that defaults clone_skb to zero.

s/Removes/Remove/
s/defaults/sets/

> -ENOTSUPP is returned
> if clone_skb is more than zero. 

That's already mentioned in the previous paragraph.

> If clone_skb is equal to zero then the
> xmit_mode is set to netif_receive as usual and no error is returned.

Please add the explanation why clone_skb can't be negative to the
commit message.