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[35.245.46.111]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ada2fe7eead31-7cc92327896sm3196621137.4.2026.10.21.09.14.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:14:06 -0400 From: Willem de Bruijn To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Willem de Bruijn , Chris Arges , =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIFTDtnBlbA==?= , Phil Sutter , Jason Wang , =?UTF-8?B?RXVnZW5pbyBQw6lyZXo=?= , Xuan Zhuo , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, Max Krasnyansky , Rusty Russell , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , Simon Horman , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <595385b672b5411849d1defc78b68b25a908a77a.1792565282.git.mst@redhat.com> References: <595385b672b5411849d1defc78b68b25a908a77a.1792565282.git.mst@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4 5/7] net: add a sysctl to opt out of virtio net hdr checksum validation X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > The ingress validation as implemented by the previous > patch is stricter than what it replaced: GSO > packets whose checksum metadata matches no transport header are > dropped, and non-GSO ones get their checksum completed in place. > Such packets used to pass with the metadata unvalidated, > and with no overhead. > = > I judge that this should not affect any deployments, but there is still= > some risk that it does. In case a deployment depends on them anyway, > provide a per-netns switch to get the old behavior back: > = > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/core/virtio_net_hdr_validate > = > The default is validating. > = > Reviewed-by: Bj=C3=B6rn T=C3=B6pel > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn