Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH net,v4,1/2] virtio_net: Improve RSS key size validation and use NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:52:27 -0500

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:47:02PM +0000, Srujana Challa wrote:
> > I don't know what to tell you. rss_max_key_size is just the max device
> > supports. driver should be free to use a smaller size.
> My understanding is that this patch prevents the probe from failing by disabling the feature instead.
> Given the current implementation, the driver becomes unusable when this condition is hit.

current implementation even more broken. but the real fix is to
intepret max key size as max.