Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > The vector receive path over-allocates the skb and only trims it > to the received length after the transport header is verified. > > A follow up patch will complete the packet checksum in software within > virtio_net_hdr_to_skb so we need the packet trimmed (otherwise the > checksum would be computed incorrectly over the unreceived tail of the > buffer). > > Trim first, so the import sees the packet as it was received. > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
