Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] hv_netvsc: Copy packets sent by Hyper-V out of the receive buffer

[Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>]

Hi net maintainers,


On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 12:50:06AM +0000, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (refs/heads/master):
> 
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:29:07 +0100 you wrote:
> > Pointers to receive-buffer packets sent by Hyper-V are used within the
> > guest VM.  Hyper-V can send packets with erroneous values or modify
> > packet fields after they are processed by the guest.  To defend against
> > these scenarios, copy (sections of) the incoming packet after validating
> > their length and offset fields in netvsc_filter_receive().  In this way,
> > the packet can no longer be modified by the host.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Here is the summary with links:
>   - [v2,net-next] hv_netvsc: Copy packets sent by Hyper-V out of the receive buffer
>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/0ba35fe91ce3

I'd have some fixes on top of this and I'm wondering about the process: would
you consider fixes/patches on top of this commit now? would you rather prefer
me to squash these fixes into a v3? other?

Thanks,
  Andrea