kernel/linux.git/drivers/vhost/net.c, branch v6.18.48

vhost-net: fix TX stall when vhost owns virtio-net header

2026-08-03T09:21:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3c0d10f233f19153f81fef685b5c6716776a5af3 ] When vhost owns the virtio-net header, i.e. when VHOST_NET_F_VIRTIO_NET_HDR is negotiated, sock_hlen is 0, meaning that no header will be forwarded to the TAP device. In the current vhost_net_build_xdp() implementation, when sock_hlen == 0, the gso pointer can point at the start of the Ethernet frame instead of a virtio-net header. This results in a wrong interpretation of the destination MAC address bytes as struct virtio_net_hdr fields. This can, for some MAC addresses, trigger -EINVAL and return early before the TX descriptor is completed, which can stall vhost-net TX. Before 97b2409f28e0, the gso pointer was set to the zeroed padding area, using it as a synthetic virtio-net header. Restore that behavior. Fixes: 97b2409f28e0 ("vhost-net: reduce one userspace copy when building XDP buff") Signed-off-by: Enrico Zanda Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260708152242.2268848-1-enrico.zanda@arm.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vhost/net: complete zerocopy ubufs only once

2026-07-24T14:16:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8f6898fe80794f2d7c3d38c1158c806e4074a1c4 ] vhost-net initializes one ubuf_info per outstanding zerocopy TX descriptor and hands it to the backend socket. The networking stack may then clone a zerocopy skb before all skb references are released. For example, batman-adv fragmentation reaches skb_split(), which calls skb_zerocopy_clone() and increments the same ubuf_info refcount. vhost_zerocopy_complete() currently treats every ubuf callback as a completed vhost descriptor. It dereferences ubuf->ctx, writes the descriptor completion state, and drops the vhost_net_ubuf_ref even when the callback only releases a cloned skb reference. A backend reset can therefore wait for and free the vhost_net_ubuf_ref while another cloned skb still carries the same ubuf_info. A later completion then dereferences the freed ubufs pointer. KASAN reports the stale completion as: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vhost_zerocopy_complete+0x1d7/0x1f0 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vhost_zerocopy_complete+0x101/0x1f0 vhost_zerocopy_complete skb_copy_ubufs __dev_forward_skb2 veth_xmit The freed object was allocated from vhost_net_ioctl() while setting the backend and freed through kfree_rcu()/kvfree_rcu_bulk after backend removal, while delayed skb completion still reached vhost_zerocopy_complete(). Honor the generic ubuf_info refcount before touching vhost state, and run the vhost descriptor completion only for the final ubuf reference. This matches the msg_zerocopy_complete() ownership rule for cloned zerocopy skbs. Fixes: bab632d69ee4 ("vhost: vhost TX zero-copy support") Signed-off-by: Qing Ming Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Message-ID: <20260601104300.197210-1-a0yami@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vhost_net: fix sleeping with preempt-disabled in vhost_net_busy_poll()

2026-05-23T11:07:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit e08a9fac5cf8c3fecf4755e7e3ac059f78b8f83d ] syzbot reported "sleeping function called from invalid context" in vhost_net_busy_poll(). Commit 030881372460 ("vhost_net: basic polling support") introduced a busy-poll loop and preempt_{disable,enable}() around it, where each iteration calls a sleepable function inside the loop. The purpose of disabling preemption was to keep local_clock()-based timeout accounting on a single CPU, rather than as a requirement of busy-poll itself: https://lore.kernel.org/1448435489-5949-4-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com From this perspective, migrate_disable() is sufficient here, so replace preempt_disable() with migrate_disable(), avoiding sleepable accesses from a preempt-disabled context. Fixes: 030881372460 ("vhost_net: basic polling support") Tested-by: syzbot+6985cb8e543ea90ba8ee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+6985cb8e543ea90ba8ee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69e6a414.050a0220.24bfd3.002d.GAE@google.com/T/ Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

virtio: clean up features qword/dword terms

2025-12-18T13:03:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9513f25056b22100ddffe24898c587873b0d022c ] virtio pci uses word to mean "16 bits". mmio uses it to mean "32 bits". To avoid confusion, let's avoid the term in core virtio altogether. Just say U64 to mean "64 bit". Fixes: e7d4c1c5a546 ("virtio: introduce extended features") Cc: Paolo Abeni Acked-by: Jason Wang Message-ID: Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vhost: rewind next_avail_head while discarding descriptors

2025-11-26T22:44:58+00:00

When discarding descriptors with IN_ORDER, we should rewind next_avail_head otherwise it would run out of sync with last_avail_idx. This would cause driver to report "id X is not a head". Fixing this by returning the number of descriptors that is used for each buffer via vhost_get_vq_desc_n() so caller can use the value while discarding descriptors. Fixes: 67a873df0c41 ("vhost: basic in order support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120022950.10117-1-jasowang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vhost-net: flush batched before enabling notifications

2025-09-19T08:15:26+00:00

Commit 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg") tries to defer the notification enabling by moving the logic out of the loop after the vhost_tx_batch() when nothing new is spotted. This caused unexpected side effects as the new logic is reused for several other error conditions. A previous patch reverted 8c2e6b26ffe2. Now, bring the performance back up by flushing batched buffers before enabling notifications. Reported-by: Jon Kohler Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Message-Id: <20250917063045.2042-3-jasowang@redhat.com>

Revert "vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg"

2025-09-19T08:15:26+00:00

This reverts commit 8c2e6b26ffe243be1e78f5a4bfb1a857d6e6f6d6. It tries to defer the notification enabling by moving the logic out of the loop after the vhost_tx_batch() when nothing new is spotted. This will bring side effects as the new logic would be reused for several other error conditions. One example is the IOTLB: when there's an IOTLB miss, get_tx_bufs() might return -EAGAIN and exit the loop and see there's still available buffers, so it will queue the tx work again until userspace feed the IOTLB entry correctly. This will slowdown the tx processing and trigger the TX watchdog in the guest as reported in https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/9/10/1596. To fix, revert the change. A follow up patch will bring the performance back in a safe way. Reported-by: Jon Kohler Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Message-Id: <20250917063045.2042-2-jasowang@redhat.com>

vhost-net: unbreak busy polling

2025-09-19T08:15:26+00:00

Commit 67a873df0c41 ("vhost: basic in order support") pass the number of used elem to vhost_net_rx_peek_head_len() to make sure it can signal the used correctly before trying to do busy polling. But it forgets to clear the count, this would cause the count run out of sync with handle_rx() and break the busy polling. Fixing this by passing the pointer of the count and clearing it after the signaling the used. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 67a873df0c41 ("vhost: basic in order support") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Message-Id: <20250917063045.2042-1-jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

vhost/net: Protect ubufs with rcu read lock in vhost_net_ubuf_put()

2025-08-26T07:38:10+00:00

When operating on struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref, the following execution sequence is theoretically possible: CPU0 is finalizing DMA operation CPU1 is doing VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND // ubufs->refcount == 2 vhost_net_ubuf_put() vhost_net_ubuf_put_wait_and_free(oldubufs) vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait() vhost_net_ubuf_put() int r = atomic_sub_return(1, &ubufs->refcount); // r = 1 int r = atomic_sub_return(1, &ubufs->refcount); // r = 0 wait_event(ubufs->wait, !atomic_read(&ubufs->refcount)); // no wait occurs here because condition is already true kfree(ubufs); if (unlikely(!r)) wake_up(&ubufs->wait); // use-after-free This leads to use-after-free on ubufs access. This happens because CPU1 skips waiting for wake_up() when refcount is already zero. To prevent that use a read-side RCU critical section in vhost_net_ubuf_put(), as suggested by Hillf Danton. For this lock to take effect, free ubufs with kfree_rcu(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0ad8b480d6ee9 ("vhost: fix ref cnt checking deadlock") Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin Suggested-by: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Nikolay Kuratov Message-Id: <20250805130917.727332-1-kniv@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

2025-08-01T21:17:48+00:00

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin: - vhost can now support legacy threading if enabled in Kconfig - vsock memory allocation strategies for large buffers have been improved, reducing pressure on kmalloc - vhost now supports the in-order feature. guest bits missed the merge window. - fixes, cleanups all over the place * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (30 commits) vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() vhost/vsock: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large receive buffers vsock/virtio: Move SKB allocation lower-bound check to callers vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_alloc_skb() vsock/virtio: Resize receive buffers so that each SKB fits in a 4K page vsock/virtio: Move length check to callers of virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() vsock/virtio: Validate length in packet header before skb_put() vhost/vsock: Avoid allocating arbitrarily-sized SKBs vhost_net: basic in_order support vhost: basic in order support vhost: fail early when __vhost_add_used() fails vhost: Reintroduce kthread API and add mode selection vdpa: Fix IDR memory leak in VDUSE module exit vdpa/mlx5: Fix release of uninitialized resources on error path vhost-scsi: Fix check for inline_sg_cnt exceeding preallocated limit virtio: virtio_dma_buf: fix missing parameter documentation vhost: Fix typos vhost: vringh: Remove unused functions vhost: vringh: Remove unused iotlb functions ...