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authorMichael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>2022-02-09 08:11:10 -0800
committerWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>2022-02-18 13:08:18 +0000
commit6de74d1069b821e96460d0fc2edfc35785db04fb (patch)
tree7670a968e8a04d89202a732790a580e2a7f41a8c /include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
parent4ee524587105011ef43e5bd3ef5ed019715363dd (diff)
hv_utils: Add comment about max VMbus packet size in VSS driver
The VSS driver allocates a VMbus receive buffer significantly larger than sizeof(hv_vss_msg), with no explanation. To help prevent future mistakes, add a #define and comment about why this is done. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1644423070-75125-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h b/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
index daf82a230c0e..aaa502a7bff4 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
@@ -90,6 +90,17 @@ struct hv_vss_check_dm_info {
__u32 flags;
} __attribute__((packed));
+/*
+ * struct hv_vss_msg encodes the fields that the Linux VSS
+ * driver accesses. However, FREEZE messages from Hyper-V contain
+ * additional LUN information that Linux doesn't use and are not
+ * represented in struct hv_vss_msg. A received FREEZE message may
+ * be as large as 6,260 bytes, so the driver must allocate at least
+ * that much space, not sizeof(struct hv_vss_msg). Other messages
+ * such as AUTO_RECOVER may be as large as 12,500 bytes. However,
+ * because the Linux VSS driver responds that it doesn't support
+ * auto-recovery, it should not receive such messages.
+ */
struct hv_vss_msg {
union {
struct hv_vss_hdr vss_hdr;