Re: [PATCH net 0/2] vsock/virtio: fix vsockmon tap skb construction

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 06:44:09PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> While reviewing the patch posted by Yiqi Sun [1] to fix an issue in
> virtio_transport_build_skb(), I discovered another issue related to
> the offset and length of the payload to be copied in the new skb.
> This was introduced when we did the skb conversion, and fixed by
> patch 1.
> 
> Patch 2 fixes the issue found by Yiqi Sun in a different way: using
> iov_iter_kvec() to properly initialize all the iov_iter fields and
> removing the linear vs non-linear split like we alredy do in
> vhost-vsock.
> 
> It could have been a single patch, but since there were two affected
> commits, I decided to keep the fixes separate.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260430071110.380509-1-sunyiqixm@gmail.com/


Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

> Stefano Garzarella (2):
>   vsock/virtio: fix length and offset in tap skb for split packets
>   vsock/virtio: fix empty payload in tap skb for non-linear buffers
> 
>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 47 +++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.54.0