netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: check dev->gso_max_size in gso_features

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:00:23 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 willemb@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: check dev->gso_max_size in gso_features_check()

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:53:31 +0000 you wrote:
> Some drivers might misbehave if TSO packets get too big.
> 
> GVE for instance uses a 16bit field in its TX descriptor,
> and will do bad things if a packet is bigger than 2^16 bytes.
> 
> Linux TCP stack honors dev->gso_max_size, but there are
> other ways for too big packets to reach an ndo_start_xmit()
> handler : virtio_net, af_packet, GRO...
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: check dev->gso_max_size in gso_features_check()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/24ab059d2ebd

You are awesome, thank you!
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