[PATCH v4 0/1] virtio-vsock: Add timer to handle OOM situations

@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@
 #include <net/sock.h>
 #include <linux/virtio_vsock.h>
 #include <linux/vhost.h>
+#include <linux/timer.h>
 
 #include <net/af_vsock.h>
 #include "vhost.h"
 
 #define VHOST_VSOCK_DEFAULT_HOST_CID	2
+#define OOM_RETRY_MS	100
 
 enum {
 	VHOST_VSOCK_FEATURES = VHOST_FEATURES,

@@ -43,6 +45,8 @@ struct vhost_vsock {
 	atomic_t queued_replies;
 
 	u32 guest_cid;
+
+	struct timer_list tx_kick;
 };
 
 static u32 vhost_transport_get_local_cid(void)

@@ -229,12 +233,12 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 
 	if (in != 0) {
 		vq_err(vq, "Expected 0 input buffers, got %u\n", in);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
 	pkt = kzalloc(sizeof(*pkt), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pkt)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	len = iov_length(vq->iov, out);
 	iov_iter_init(&iov_iter, WRITE, vq->iov, out, len);

@@ -244,7 +248,7 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 		vq_err(vq, "Expected %zu bytes for pkt->hdr, got %zu bytes\n",
 		       sizeof(pkt->hdr), nbytes);
 		kfree(pkt);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
 	if (le16_to_cpu(pkt->hdr.type) == VIRTIO_VSOCK_TYPE_STREAM)

@@ -257,13 +261,13 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	/* The pkt is too big */
 	if (pkt->len > VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE) {
 		kfree(pkt);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
 	pkt->buf = kmalloc(pkt->len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pkt->buf) {
 		kfree(pkt);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
 	nbytes = copy_from_iter(pkt->buf, pkt->len, &iov_iter);

@@ -271,7 +275,7 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 		vq_err(vq, "Expected %u byte payload, got %zu bytes\n",
 		       pkt->len, nbytes);
 		virtio_transport_free_pkt(pkt);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
 	return pkt;

@@ -329,9 +333,25 @@ static void vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick(struct vhost_work *work)
 		}
 
 		pkt = vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(vq, out, in);
-		if (!pkt) {
-			vq_err(vq, "Faulted on pkt\n");
-			continue;
+		if (IS_ERR(pkt)) {
+			if (PTR_ERR(pkt) == -ENOMEM) {
+				vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
+
+				if (!timer_pending(&vsock->tx_kick)) {
+					vsock->tx_kick.data =
+						(unsigned long) vq;
+					vsock->tx_kick.expires =
+						jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(OOM_RETRY_MS);
+					add_timer(&vsock->tx_kick);
+				}
+
+				break;
+			} else {
+				vq_err(vq, "Faulted on pkt\n");
+				break;
+			}
+		} else if (unlikely(timer_pending(&vsock->tx_kick))) {
+			del_timer(&vsock->tx_kick);
 		}
 
 		/* Only accept correctly addressed packets */

@@ -352,6 +372,13 @@ out:
 	mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
 }
 
+static void vhost_vsock_rehandle_tx_kick(unsigned long data)
+{
+	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = (struct vhost_virtqueue *) data;
+
+	vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
+}
+
 static void vhost_vsock_handle_rx_kick(struct vhost_work *work)
 {
 	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = container_of(work, struct vhost_virtqueue,

@@ -464,6 +491,9 @@ static int vhost_vsock_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
 	atomic_set(&vsock->queued_replies, 0);
 
+	setup_timer(&vsock->tx_kick,
+		    vhost_vsock_rehandle_tx_kick, (unsigned long) NULL);
+
 	vqs[VSOCK_VQ_TX] = &vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_TX];
 	vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX] = &vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX];
 	vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_TX].handle_kick = vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick;

@@ -527,6 +557,7 @@ static int vhost_vsock_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	vsock_for_each_connected_socket(vhost_vsock_reset_orphans);
 
 	vhost_vsock_stop(vsock);
+	del_timer_sync(&vsock->tx_kick);
 	vhost_vsock_flush(vsock);
 	vhost_dev_stop(&vsock->dev);