[PATCH net-next v2 2/7] um: vector: honor virtio net hdr conversion failures
Willem de Bruijn
willemdebruijn.kernel at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 10:19:22 PDT 2026
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() refuses packets whose checksum metadata
> it cannot make sense of, but the vector raw transport ignored
> its return value: rejected packets went on into the stack with
> their metadata unvalidated.
>
> Propagate the failure.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/um/drivers/vector_transports.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/vector_transports.c b/arch/um/drivers/vector_transports.c
> index e1fb2a76fdff..8b7548458663 100644
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/vector_transports.c
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/vector_transports.c
> @@ -210,7 +210,9 @@ static int raw_verify_header(
> return 1;
>
> skb_set_network_header(skb, ETH_HLEN);
> - virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, vheader, virtio_legacy_is_little_endian());
> + if (virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, vheader,
> + virtio_legacy_is_little_endian()) < 0)
> + return -1;
Should this return 1, like the above?
Not sure whether the verify_header return value is well defined beyond
just boolean.
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