kernel/linux.git/net/vmw_vsock, branch v6.19.11

vmw_vsock: bypass false-positive Wnonnull warning with gcc-16

2026-03-04T12:20:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit e25dbf561e03c0c5e36228e3b8b784392819ce85 ] The gcc-16.0.1 snapshot produces a false-positive warning that turns into a build failure with CONFIG_WERROR: In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/string.h:6, from net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c:10: In function 'vmci_transport_packet_init', inlined from '__vmci_transport_send_control_pkt.constprop' at net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c:198:2: arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:150:25: error: argument 2 null where non-null expected because argument 3 is nonzero [-Werror=nonnull] 150 | #define memcpy(t, f, n) __builtin_memcpy(t, f, n) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c:164:17: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy' 164 | memcpy(&pkt->u.wait, wait, sizeof(pkt->u.wait)); | ^~~~~~ arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:150:25: note: in a call to built-in function '__builtin_memcpy' net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c:164:17: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy' 164 | memcpy(&pkt->u.wait, wait, sizeof(pkt->u.wait)); | ^~~~~~ This seems relatively harmless, and it so far the only instance of this warning I have found. The __vmci_transport_send_control_pkt function is called either with wait=NULL or with one of the type values that pass 'wait' into memcpy() here, but not from the same caller. Replacing the memcpy with a struct assignment is otherwise the same but avoids the warning. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Bobby Eshleman Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Reviewed-by: Bryan Tan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203163406.2636463-1-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size

2026-01-22T14:41:33+00:00

The virtio transports derives its TX credit directly from peer_buf_alloc, which is set from the remote endpoint's SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_SIZE value. On the host side this means that the amount of data we are willing to queue for a connection is scaled by a guest-chosen buffer size, rather than the host's own vsock configuration. A malicious guest can advertise a large buffer and read slowly, causing the host to allocate a correspondingly large amount of sk_buff memory. The same thing would happen in the guest with a malicious host, since virtio transports share the same code base. Introduce a small helper, virtio_transport_tx_buf_size(), that returns min(peer_buf_alloc, buf_alloc), and use it wherever we consume peer_buf_alloc. This ensures the effective TX window is bounded by both the peer's advertised buffer and our own buf_alloc (already clamped to buffer_max_size via SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE), so a remote peer cannot force the other to queue more data than allowed by its own vsock settings. On an unpatched Ubuntu 22.04 host (~64 GiB RAM), running a PoC with 32 guest vsock connections advertising 2 GiB each and reading slowly drove Slab/SUnreclaim from ~0.5 GiB to ~57 GiB; the system only recovered after killing the QEMU process. That said, if QEMU memory is limited with cgroups, the maximum memory used will be limited. With this patch applied: Before: MemFree: ~61.6 GiB Slab: ~142 MiB SUnreclaim: ~117 MiB After 32 high-credit connections: MemFree: ~61.5 GiB Slab: ~178 MiB SUnreclaim: ~152 MiB Only ~35 MiB increase in Slab/SUnreclaim, no host OOM, and the guest remains responsive. Compatibility with non-virtio transports: - VMCI uses the AF_VSOCK buffer knobs to size its queue pairs per socket based on the local vsk->buffer_* values; the remote side cannot enlarge those queues beyond what the local endpoint configured. - Hyper-V's vsock transport uses fixed-size VMBus ring buffers and an MTU bound; there is no peer-controlled credit field comparable to peer_buf_alloc, and the remote endpoint cannot drive in-flight kernel memory above those ring sizes. - The loopback path reuses virtio_transport_common.c, so it naturally follows the same semantics as the virtio transport. This change is limited to virtio_transport_common.c and thus affects virtio-vsock, vhost-vsock, and loopback, bringing them in line with the "remote window intersected with local policy" behaviour that VMCI and Hyper-V already effectively have. Fixes: 06a8fc78367d ("VSOCK: Introduce virtio_vsock_common.ko") Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Melbin K Mathew [Stefano: small adjustments after changing the previous patch] [Stefano: tweak the commit message] Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella Reviewed-by: Luigi Leonardi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121093628.9941-4-sgarzare@redhat.com Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

vsock/virtio: fix potential underflow in virtio_transport_get_credit()

2026-01-22T14:41:33+00:00

The credit calculation in virtio_transport_get_credit() uses unsigned arithmetic: ret = vvs->peer_buf_alloc - (vvs->tx_cnt - vvs->peer_fwd_cnt); If the peer shrinks its advertised buffer (peer_buf_alloc) while bytes are in flight, the subtraction can underflow and produce a large positive value, potentially allowing more data to be queued than the peer can handle. Reuse virtio_transport_has_space() which already handles this case and add a comment to make it clear why we are doing that. Fixes: 06a8fc78367d ("VSOCK: Introduce virtio_vsock_common.ko") Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Melbin K Mathew [Stefano: use virtio_transport_has_space() instead of duplicating the code] [Stefano: tweak the commit message] Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella Reviewed-by: Luigi Leonardi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121093628.9941-2-sgarzare@redhat.com Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb

2026-01-16T03:44:44+00:00

vsock/virtio common tries to coalesce buffers in rx queue: if a linear skb (with a spare tail room) is followed by a small skb (length limited by GOOD_COPY_LEN = 128), an attempt is made to join them. Since the introduction of MSG_ZEROCOPY support, assumption that a small skb will always be linear is incorrect. In the zerocopy case, data is lost and the linear skb is appended with uninitialized kernel memory. Of all 3 supported virtio-based transports, only loopback-transport is affected. G2H virtio-transport rx queue operates on explicitly linear skbs; see virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() in virtio_vsock_rx_fill(). H2G vhost-transport may allocate non-linear skbs, but only for sizes that are not considered for coalescence; see PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER in virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(). Ensure only linear skbs are coalesced. Note that skb_tailroom(last_skb) > 0 guarantees last_skb is linear. Fixes: 581512a6dc93 ("vsock/virtio: MSG_ZEROCOPY flag support") Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113-vsock-recv-coalescence-v2-1-552b17837cf4@rbox.co Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vsock: Make accept()ed sockets use custom setsockopt()

2026-01-06T00:14:50+00:00

SO_ZEROCOPY handling in vsock_connectible_setsockopt() does not get called on accept()ed sockets due to a missing flag. Flip it. Fixes: e0718bd82e27 ("vsock: enable setting SO_ZEROCOPY") Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251229-vsock-child-sock-custom-sockopt-v2-1-64778d6c4f88@rbox.co Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-11-20T17:13:26+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc7). No conflicts, adjacent changes: tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/Makefile e1bb28bf13f4 ("selftest: af_unix: Add test for SO_PEEK_OFF.") 45a1cd8346ca ("selftests: af_unix: Add tests for ECONNRESET and EOF semantics") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vsock: Ignore signal/timeout on connect() if already established

2025-11-20T15:40:06+00:00

During connect(), acting on a signal/timeout by disconnecting an already established socket leads to several issues: 1. connect() invoking vsock_transport_cancel_pkt() -> virtio_transport_purge_skbs() may race with sendmsg() invoking virtio_transport_get_credit(). This results in a permanently elevated `vvs->bytes_unsent`. Which, in turn, confuses the SOCK_LINGER handling. 2. connect() resetting a connected socket's state may race with socket being placed in a sockmap. A disconnected socket remaining in a sockmap breaks sockmap's assumptions. And gives rise to WARNs. 3. connect() transitioning SS_CONNECTED -> SS_UNCONNECTED allows for a transport change/drop after TCP_ESTABLISHED. Which poses a problem for any simultaneous sendmsg() or connect() and may result in a use-after-free/null-ptr-deref. Do not disconnect socket on signal/timeout. Keep the logic for unconnected sockets: they don't linger, can't be placed in a sockmap, are rejected by sendmsg(). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/e07fd95c-9a38-4eea-9638-133e38c2ec9b@rbox.co/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250317-vsock-trans-signal-race-v4-0-fc8837f3f1d4@rbox.co/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/60f1b7db-3099-4f6a-875e-af9f6ef194f6@rbox.co/ Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets") Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119-vsock-interrupted-connect-v2-1-70734cf1233f@rbox.co Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops connect() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized

2025-11-05T03:10:32+00:00

Update all struct proto_ops bind() callback function prototypes from "struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch. No binary changes expected. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-2-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vsock: fix lock inversion in vsock_assign_transport()

2025-10-23T14:07:58+00:00

Syzbot reported a potential lock inversion deadlock between vsock_register_mutex and sk_lock-AF_VSOCK when vsock_linger() is called. The issue was introduced by commit 687aa0c5581b ("vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU") which added vsock_register_mutex locking in vsock_assign_transport() around the transport->release() call, that can call vsock_linger(). vsock_assign_transport() can be called with sk_lock held. vsock_linger() calls sk_wait_event() that temporarily releases and re-acquires sk_lock. During this window, if another thread hold vsock_register_mutex while trying to acquire sk_lock, a circular dependency is created. Fix this by releasing vsock_register_mutex before calling transport->release() and vsock_deassign_transport(). This is safe because we don't need to hold vsock_register_mutex while releasing the old transport, and we ensure the new transport won't disappear by obtaining a module reference first via try_module_get(). Reported-by: syzbot+10e35716f8e4929681fa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+10e35716f8e4929681fa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 687aa0c5581b ("vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU") Cc: mhal@rbox.co Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251021121718.137668-1-sgarzare@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni