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The tun selftests pass. Antonio Quartulli (3): tun: don't probe the transport header of packets written by userspace tun: don't disable BHs for the XDP program check of every packet tun: skip the virtio-net header parsing without IFF_VNET_HDR drivers/net/tun.c | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.56.0