kernel/linux.git/drivers/vhost/vsock.c, branch v6.12.80

vhost/vsock: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large receive buffers

2026-01-30T09:28:49+00:00

[Upstream commit ab9aa2f3afc2713c14f6c4c6b90c9a0933b837f1] When receiving a packet from a guest, vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick() calls vhost_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() to allocate and fill an SKB with the receive data. Unfortunately, these are always linear allocations and can therefore result in significant pressure on kmalloc() considering that the maximum packet size (VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE + VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_HEADROOM) is a little over 64KiB, resulting in a 128KiB allocation for each packet. Rework the vsock SKB allocation so that, for sizes with page order greater than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, a nonlinear SKB is allocated instead with the packet header in the SKB and the receive data in the fragments. Finally, add a debug warning if virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() is ever called on an SKB with a non-zero length, as this would be destructive for the nonlinear case. Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-8-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Heitor Alves de Siqueira Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()

2026-01-30T09:28:49+00:00

[Upstream commit 8ca76151d2c8219edea82f1925a2a25907ff6a9d] In preparation for using virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() when populating SKBs on the vsock TX path, rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() to virtio_vsock_skb_put(). No functional change. Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-9-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Heitor Alves de Siqueira Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vsock/virtio: Move SKB allocation lower-bound check to callers

2026-01-30T09:28:49+00:00

[Upstream commit fac6b82e0f3eaca33c8c67ec401681b21143ae17] virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() checks that the requested size is at least big enough for the packet header (VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_HEADROOM). Of the three callers of virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb(), only vhost_vsock_alloc_skb() can potentially pass a packet smaller than the header size and, as it already has a check against the maximum packet size, extend its bounds checking to consider the minimum packet size and remove the check from virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb(). Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-7-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Heitor Alves de Siqueira Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_alloc_skb()

2026-01-30T09:28:48+00:00

[Upstream commit 2304c64a2866c58534560c63dc6e79d09b8f8d8d] In preparation for nonlinear allocations for large SKBs, rename virtio_vsock_alloc_skb() to virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() to indicate that it returns linear SKBs unconditionally and switch all callers over to this new interface for now. No functional change. Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-6-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Heitor Alves de Siqueira Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vsock/virtio: Move length check to callers of virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()

2026-01-30T09:28:48+00:00

[Upstream commit 87dbae5e36613a6020f3d64a2eaeac0a1e0e6dc6] virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() only calls skb_put() if the length in the packet header is not zero even though skb_put() handles this case gracefully. Remove the functionally redundant check from virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() and, on the assumption that this is a worthwhile optimisation for handling credit messages, augment the existing length checks in virtio_transport_rx_work() to elide the call for zero-length payloads. Since the callers all have the length, extend virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() to take it as an additional parameter rather than fish it back out of the packet header. Note that the vhost code already has similar logic in vhost_vsock_alloc_skb(). Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-4-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Heitor Alves de Siqueira Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vhost/vsock: improve RCU read sections around vhost_vsock_get()

2026-01-08T09:14:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit d8ee3cfdc89b75dc059dc21c27bef2c1440f67eb ] vhost_vsock_get() uses hash_for_each_possible_rcu() to find the `vhost_vsock` associated with the `guest_cid`. hash_for_each_possible_rcu() should only be called within an RCU read section, as mentioned in the following comment in include/linux/rculist.h: /** * hlist_for_each_entry_rcu - iterate over rcu list of given type * @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor. * @head: the head for your list. * @member: the name of the hlist_node within the struct. * @cond: optional lockdep expression if called from non-RCU protection. * * This list-traversal primitive may safely run concurrently with * the _rcu list-mutation primitives such as hlist_add_head_rcu() * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock(). */ Currently, all calls to vhost_vsock_get() are between rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() except for calls in vhost_vsock_set_cid() and vhost_vsock_reset_orphans(). In both cases, the current code is safe, but we can make improvements to make it more robust. About vhost_vsock_set_cid(), when building the kernel with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST enabled, we get the following RCU warning when the user space issues `ioctl(dev, VHOST_VSOCK_SET_GUEST_CID, ...)` : WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.18.0-rc7 #62 Not tainted ----------------------------- drivers/vhost/vsock.c:74 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 1 lock held by rpc-libvirtd/3443: #0: ffffffffc05032a8 (vhost_vsock_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: vhost_vsock_dev_ioctl+0x2ff/0x530 [vhost_vsock] stack backtrace: CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 3443 Comm: rpc-libvirtd Not tainted 6.18.0-rc7 #62 PREEMPT(none) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-7.fc42 06/10/2025 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x75/0xb0 dump_stack+0x14/0x1a lockdep_rcu_suspicious.cold+0x4e/0x97 vhost_vsock_get+0x8f/0xa0 [vhost_vsock] vhost_vsock_dev_ioctl+0x307/0x530 [vhost_vsock] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x4f2/0xa00 x64_sys_call+0xed0/0x1da0 do_syscall_64+0x73/0xfa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e ... This is not a real problem, because the vhost_vsock_get() caller, i.e. vhost_vsock_set_cid(), holds the `vhost_vsock_mutex` used by the hash table writers. Anyway, to prevent that warning, add lockdep_is_held() condition to hash_for_each_possible_rcu() to verify that either the caller is in an RCU read section or `vhost_vsock_mutex` is held when CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST is enabled; and also clarify the comment for vhost_vsock_get() to better describe the locking requirements and the scope of the returned pointer validity. About vhost_vsock_reset_orphans(), currently this function is only called via vsock_for_each_connected_socket(), which holds the `vsock_table_lock` spinlock (which is also an RCU read-side critical section). However, add an explicit RCU read lock there to make the code more robust and explicit about the RCU requirements, and to prevent issues if the calling context changes in the future or if vhost_vsock_reset_orphans() is called from other contexts. Fixes: 834e772c8db0 ("vhost/vsock: fix use-after-free in network stack callers") Cc: stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-Id: <20251126133826.142496-1-sgarzare@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20251126210313.GA499503@fedora> Acked-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vhost/vsock: Avoid allocating arbitrarily-sized SKBs

2025-08-28T14:30:59+00:00

commit 10a886aaed293c4db3417951f396827216299e3d upstream. vhost_vsock_alloc_skb() returns NULL for packets advertising a length larger than VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE in the packet header. However, this is only checked once the SKB has been allocated and, if the length in the packet header is zero, the SKB may not be freed immediately. Hoist the size check before the SKB allocation so that an iovec larger than VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE + the header size is rejected outright. The subsequent check on the length field in the header can then simply check that the allocated SKB is indeed large enough to hold the packet. Cc: Fixes: 71dc9ec9ac7d ("virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff") Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-2-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vsock/virtio: add SIOCOUTQ support for all virtio based transports

2024-08-02T08:20:28+00:00

Introduce support for virtio_transport_unsent_bytes ioctl for virtio_transport, vhost_vsock and vsock_loopback. For all transports the unsent bytes counter is incremented in virtio_transport_get_credit. In virtio_transport (G2H) and in vhost-vsock (H2G) the counter is decremented when the skbuff is consumed. In vsock_loopback the same skbuff is passed from the transmitter to the receiver, so the counter is decremented before queuing the skbuff to the receiver. Signed-off-by: Luigi Leonardi Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow

2024-07-04T15:00:31+00:00

There are two issues around seqpacket_allow: 1. seqpacket_allow is not initialized when socket is created. Thus if features are never set, it will be read uninitialized. 2. if VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_SEQPACKET is set and then cleared, then seqpacket_allow will not be cleared appropriately (existing apps I know about don't usually do this but it's legal and there's no way to be sure no one relies on this). To fix: - initialize seqpacket_allow after allocation - set it unconditionally in set_features Reported-by: syzbot+6c21aeb59d0e82eb2782@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Jeongjun Park Fixes: ced7b713711f ("vhost/vsock: support SEQPACKET for transport"). Tested-by: Arseny Krasnov Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-ID: <20240422100010-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Jason Wang Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski

virtio/vsock: send credit update during setting SO_RCVLOWAT

2023-12-15T10:37:35+00:00

Send credit update message when SO_RCVLOWAT is updated and it is bigger than number of bytes in rx queue. It is needed, because 'poll()' will wait until number of bytes in rx queue will be not smaller than O_RCVLOWAT, so kick sender to send more data. Otherwise mutual hungup for tx/rx is possible: sender waits for free space and receiver is waiting data in 'poll()'. Rename 'set_rcvlowat' callback to 'notify_set_rcvlowat' and set 'sk->sk_rcvlowat' only in one place (i.e. 'vsock_set_rcvlowat'), so the transport doesn't need to do it. Fixes: b89d882dc9fc ("vsock/virtio: reduce credit update messages") Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller