netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] vsock/virtio: fix packet delivery to tap device

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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 01:10:27 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] vsock/virtio: fix packet delivery to tap device

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:12:59 +0100 you wrote:
> Commit 82dfb540aeb2 ("VSOCK: Add virtio vsock vsockmon hooks") added
> virtio_transport_deliver_tap_pkt() for handing packets to the
> vsockmon device. However, in virtio_transport_send_pkt_work(),
> the function is called before actually sending the packet (i.e.
> before placing it in the virtqueue with virtqueue_add_sgs() and checking
> whether it returned successfully).
> Queuing the packet in the virtqueue can fail even multiple times.
> However, in virtio_transport_deliver_tap_pkt() we deliver the packet
> to the monitoring tap interface only the first time we call it.
> This certainly avoids seeing the same packet replicated multiple times
> in the monitoring interface, but it can show the packet sent with the
> wrong timestamp or even before we succeed to queue it in the virtqueue.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v2] vsock/virtio: fix packet delivery to tap device
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/b32a09ea7c38

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