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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 07:56:23AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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

Oh good to know. thanks!