[PATCH net v6 1/2] net: validate virtio checksum start after network header

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Sep 21 22:56:23 PDT 2026


On Tue, 2026-09-22 at 01:14 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * Return the L3 offset and protocol of an Ethernet frame starting at skb->data.
> > + * The offset is unused without NEEDS_CSUM, so avoid parsing and return zero.
> > + */
> 
> for networking code multiline comments:
> 
> /* always
>  * look like this
>  */
> 
> /*
>  * never
>  * like this
>  */

This, for the record, is't really true any more - we dropped the special
rule a few years ago.

johannes



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