ovs_vport_receive(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ovs_vport_receive(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a whole kernel manual, and yes this one is a lil function that ~passes a packet up~ 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ovs_vport_receive — the girlie that passes up received packet to the datapath for processing 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ovs_vport_receive (struct vport *vport , struct sk_buff *skb , const
struct ip_tunnel_info *tun_info );

like. she takes three things and returns an int. no cap. that's her whole job. 🦋

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • vport — the vport that received the packet, aka the main character of this whole situation 👑
  • skb — the skb that was received, the actual packet bestie, the moment itself ✨
  • tun_info — the tunnel (if any) that carried packet, so like… if there was a tunnel at all 🙈

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so listen up, this part is important:

Must be called with rcu_read_lock. like, literally, you must. not optional. not "if you feel like it." it's giving mandatory 🚨

The packet cannot be shared — nope, nope, not sharing, that's not on the table, don't even try it 💀

And skb->data should point to the Ethernet header. like that's where it needs to be pointing. periodt. 💅

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./net/openvswitch/vport.c — and honestly the whole friend group:

go read all of them. iykyk 🧚💜

okay that's literally it, mwah ily, this page lives in ./net/openvswitch and it's dated October 2026 — signed, sealed, slayed. bye bestie!! 🍓🔥👑

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