FAILED: patch "[PATCH] vhost/vsock: size receive SKBs from declared payload" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x d5e912448cd98b261eba8e35ab838f2dc69a79f5
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261109201414-failed-6.6-d5e912448cd9@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'

Thanks,
Sasha

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From d5e912448cd98b261eba8e35ab838f2dc69a79f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 08:51:01 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] vhost/vsock: size receive SKBs from declared payload

vhost_vsock_alloc_skb() sizes the skb from iov_length(), the total guest
descriptor length.  virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt() instead adds hdr->len to
rx_bytes and buf_used, and budgets each queued skb as SKB_TRUESIZE(0).  The
guest controls the descriptor length and hdr->len independently.

A guest can therefore provide a 64 KiB descriptor while declaring a zero
payload.  The descriptor-sized skb remains queued, rx_bytes and buf_used
remain unchanged, and only the fixed queue-entry budget limits retention.
This is not a lifetime leak: the skb is freed when dequeued or at socket
teardown.  Repeating this across connections can nevertheless exhaust host
memory.  On Linux v7.2, 455 such descriptors retained 30,255,680 bytes for
a 262,144-byte receive buffer; a full-payload control retained 265,984
bytes.

Vhost previously read hdr->len and allocated pkt->buf from that value.  The
conversion from virtio_vsock_pkt to sk_buff instead allocated receive skbs
from the descriptor length, introducing the allocation-accounting mismatch.

Copy the header into a stack object and validate hdr->len before allocating
the skb.  Size the allocation as sizeof(hdr) + payload_len so descriptor
capacity no longer determines queued memory.  Check payload_len against
len - sizeof(hdr) to avoid addition overflow on 32-bit hosts.

Fixes: 71dc9ec9ac7d ("virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261004235101.1464007-1-4ncienth@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
index 0cb87971d7491..88a310390eb0a 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *
 vhost_vsock_alloc_skb(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 		      unsigned int out, unsigned int in)
 {
-	struct virtio_vsock_hdr *hdr;
+	struct virtio_vsock_hdr hdr;
 	struct iov_iter iov_iter;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	size_t payload_len;
@@ -378,34 +378,32 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_skb(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	    len > VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE + VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_HEADROOM)
 		return NULL;
 
-	/* len contains both payload and hdr */
-	skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!skb)
-		return NULL;
-
 	iov_iter_init(&iov_iter, ITER_SOURCE, vq->iov, out, len);
 
-	hdr = virtio_vsock_hdr(skb);
-	nbytes = copy_from_iter(hdr, sizeof(*hdr), &iov_iter);
-	if (nbytes != sizeof(*hdr)) {
+	nbytes = copy_from_iter(&hdr, sizeof(hdr), &iov_iter);
+	if (nbytes != sizeof(hdr)) {
 		vq_err(vq, "Expected %zu bytes for pkt->hdr, got %zu bytes\n",
-		       sizeof(*hdr), nbytes);
-		kfree_skb(skb);
+		       sizeof(hdr), nbytes);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	payload_len = le32_to_cpu(hdr->len);
+	payload_len = le32_to_cpu(hdr.len);
+
+	/* The pkt is too big or the length in the header is invalid */
+	if (payload_len > len - sizeof(hdr))
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* Allocate only for the payload declared in the header. */
+	skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(payload_len + sizeof(hdr), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!skb)
+		return NULL;
+
+	memcpy(virtio_vsock_hdr(skb), &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
 
 	/* No payload */
 	if (!payload_len)
 		return skb;
 
-	/* The pkt is too big or the length in the header is invalid */
-	if (payload_len + sizeof(*hdr) > len) {
-		kfree_skb(skb);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
 	virtio_vsock_skb_put(skb, payload_len);
 
 	if (skb_copy_datagram_from_iter(skb, 0, &iov_iter, payload_len)) {
-- 
2.53.0