On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 06:28:37PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 05:45:02PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() only calls skb_put() if the length in the > > packet header is not zero even though skb_put() handles this case > > gracefully. > > > > Remove the functionally redundant check from virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() > > and, on the assumption that this is a worthwhile optimisation for > > handling credit messages, augment the existing length checks in > > virtio_transport_rx_work() to elide the call for zero-length payloads. > > Note that the vhost code already has similar logic in > > vhost_vsock_alloc_skb(). > > > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> > > --- > > include/linux/virtio_vsock.h | 4 +--- > > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 4 +++- > > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h > > index 36fb3edfa403..eb6980aa19fd 100644 > > --- a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h > > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h > > @@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ static inline void virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put(struct sk_buff > > *skb) > > u32 len; > > > > len = le32_to_cpu(virtio_vsock_hdr(skb)->len); > > - > > - if (len > 0) > > - skb_put(skb, len); > > + skb_put(skb, len); > > Since the caller is supposed to check the len, can we just pass it as > parameter? > > So we can avoid the `le32_to_cpu(virtio_vsock_hdr(skb)->len)` here.
Sure, I'll do that. It means that virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() will briefly be a simple wrapper around skb_put() but once the non-linear handling comes in then it becomes useful again. Will
