Re: [PATCH net v2] hv_sock: Return -EIO for malformed/short packets

[Stefano Garzarella]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 11:48:11PM -0700, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> Commit f63152958994 fixes a regression, however it fails to report an
> error for malformed/short packets -- normally we should never see such
> packets, but let's report an error for them just in case.
>
> Fixes: f63152958994 ("hv_sock: Report EOF instead of -EIO for FIN")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Commit f63152958994 is currently only in net.git's master branch.
>
> Changes since v1:
>    Integrated comments from Stefano Garzarella:
>
>        1) access 'vsk' directly:
>           s/hvs->vsk->peer_shutdown/vsk->peer_shutdown/
>
>        2) test the error condition first and return -EIO for that.
>
>    NO other changes.

Thanks, LGTM!

Acked-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>