netdev - Re: [PATCHv2] USB: gl620a: check for rx buffer overflow

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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:53:07 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...il.com>,
	Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>, dmitry.bezrukov@...antia.com,
	marcinguy@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] USB: gl620a: check for rx buffer overflow

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:20:47AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22.11.23 11:07, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > On 11/22/23 1:04 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > > > The driver checks for a single package overflowing
> > > > 
> > > >      Maybe packet?
> > > 
> > > No, that would be read as network packet, which
> > > is precisely what this not not and should not
> > > be mistaken for.
> > 
> >     But "package" hardly fits either. Is it a USB packet or something else?
> 
> Technically the content of the buffer associated
> with a single URB. Which on USB physically can be multiple
> packets. The network packets arrive together in a package.
> That is how this and related drivers operate.

I think it would be useful to include information along the lines
of the above in the patch description.