Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/7] um: vector: honor virtio net hdr conversion failures

From: Michael S. Tsirkin

Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 05:58:37 EST


On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 11:49:14AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2026-10-16 at 05:47 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > >
> > > Right, but virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() cannot return 1, only 0 on success
> > > and -ERROR on failure?
> >
> > After this patchset, it can, to signal slow path software checksum.
> > I'm changing callers first so that changing the function itself
> > does not break bisect. I should mention this in the commit log.
>
> Oh, OK, that I clearly missed, but also was only CC'ed on patches 2 and
> 3 :)
>
> johannes

Right, I am trying not to spam too widely.
Indeed, this is why commit log should explain.

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