Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 2 authors, 2026-01-13
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[PATCH 1/2] vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb

From: Michal Luczaj <hidden>
Date: 2026-01-08 09:55:45
Also in: kvm, lkml, virtualization
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest, virtio and vhost vsock driver, virtio core, vm sockets (af_vsock) · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Stefan Hajnoczi, Stefano Garzarella, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang

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 (see loopback transport). In the
zerocopy case, data is lost and the linear skb is appended with
uninitialized kernel memory.

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 <redacted>
---
 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
index dcc8a1d5851e..cf35eb7190cc 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
@@ -1375,7 +1375,8 @@ virtio_transport_recv_enqueue(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
 		 * of a new message.
 		 */
 		if (skb->len < skb_tailroom(last_skb) &&
-		    !(le32_to_cpu(last_hdr->flags) & VIRTIO_VSOCK_SEQ_EOM)) {
+		    !(le32_to_cpu(last_hdr->flags) & VIRTIO_VSOCK_SEQ_EOM) &&
+		    !skb_is_nonlinear(skb)) {
 			memcpy(skb_put(last_skb, skb->len), skb->data, skb->len);
 			free_pkt = true;
 			last_hdr->flags |= hdr->flags;
-- 
2.52.0
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