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Description

Fixes #6024.

The Write method signature changed from accepting SlicePayload to
accepting Payloader, but the documentation still referenced the old
SlicePayload{data} syntax. Update the documentation to reflect the
current signature and clarify the ownership transfer semantics.

Testing

  • gofmt: Passed (no formatting changes needed)
  • git diff --check: Passed (no whitespace issues)
  • Documentation review: Updated documentation accurately reflects the current implementation

Scope

This change is limited to updating documentation only. No code logic or behavior changes are made. The ownership transfer semantics remain the same as documented in the issue comments by maintainers.

The Write method signature changed from accepting SlicePayload to
accepting Payloader, but the documentation still referenced the old
SlicePayload{data} syntax. Update the documentation to reflect the
current signature and clarify the ownership transfer semantics.

Fixes google#6024.

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This is a correct but low-value PR. In the future please limit PRs to higher-value changes.

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Actually incorrect. LLM review:

Why the new wording is inaccurate

  1. The ownership-transfer warning is now vacuous, and its caller-facing advice is misleading. Payloader is just io.Reader + Len() (pkg/tcpip/tcpip.go:553-559). Every implementation obtains data by copying it out of the reader into
    stack-owned buffers: TCP via readFromPayloader → buffer.WriteFromReaderAndLimitedReader (pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/endpoint.go:1602), and UDP/ICMP/raw via TryNewPacketBufferFromPayloader → buffer.WriteFromReader
    (pkg/tcpip/transport/internal/network/endpoint.go:301). Through this interface an endpoint cannot alias or retain the caller's memory — the hazard the original SlicePayload comment warned about is structurally gone. Telling callers they
    "should not use those bytes after Write returns" is wrong in practice: a caller who writes with bytes.NewReader(buf) can safely reuse buf afterward, since the data was copied. The honest fix for tcpip.Endpoint.Write() doc is out of date #6024 is to say ownership concerns no
    longer apply (or delete the paragraph), not to transliterate the old warning.
  2. It misses the one ownership quirk the new API actually has. In TCP's non-atomic path, Write may consume more than n bytes from the Payloader and then discard the excess: readFromPayloader reads up to the initially-available window with
    locks dropped, and queueSegment truncates the result if the send buffer shrank in the meantime (pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/endpoint.go:1644-1646). So the caller-visible contract worth documenting is "bytes may be consumed from p without
    being written," which is roughly the opposite of what the PR says.

Future PRs of this kind will not be accepted, even if they use correct wording, because they waste more human review time and attention than they are worth.

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