[PATCH net v2] hv_sock: Report EOF instead of -EIO for FIN

Dexuan Cui
2026-04-16T19:15:04Z

Commit f0c5827d07cb unluckily causes a regression for the FIN packet,
and the final read syscall gets an error rather than 0.

Ideally, we would want to fix hvs_channel_readable_payload() so that it
could return 0 in the FIN scenario, but it's not good for the hv_sock
driver to use the VMBus ringbuffer's cached priv_read_index, which is
internal data in the VMBus driver.

Fix the regression in hv_sock by returning 0 rather than -EIO.

Fixes: f0c5827d07cb ("hv_sock: Return the readable bytes in hvs_stream_has_data()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ben Hillis <Ben.Hillis@microsoft.com>
Reported-by: Mitchell Levy <levymitchell0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
---

Changes since v1:
Removed the local variable 'need_refill' to make the code more
readable. Stefano, thanks!

No other change.

net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c
index 069386a74557..e5ee7aa14d0c 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c
@@ -694,7 +694,6 @@ static ssize_t hvs_stream_enqueue(struct vsock_sock *vsk, struct msghdr *msg,
static s64 hvs_stream_has_data(struct vsock_sock *vsk)
{
struct hvsock *hvs = vsk->trans;
- bool need_refill;
s64 ret;

if (hvs->recv_data_len > 0)
@@ -702,9 +701,22 @@ static s64 hvs_stream_has_data(struct vsock_sock *vsk)

switch (hvs_channel_readable_payload(hvs->chan)) {
case 1:
- need_refill = !hvs->recv_desc;
- if (!need_refill)
- return -EIO;
+ if (hvs->recv_desc) {
+ /* Here hvs->recv_data_len is 0, so hvs->recv_desc must
+ * be NULL unless it points to the 0-byte-payload FIN
+ * packet: see hvs_update_recv_data().
+ *
+ * Here all the payload has been dequeued, but
+ * hvs_channel_readable_payload() still returns 1,
+ * because the VMBus ringbuffer's read_index is not
+ * updated for the FIN packet: hvs_stream_dequeue() ->
+ * hv_pkt_iter_next() updates the cached priv_read_index
+ * but has no opportunity to update the read_index in
+ * hv_pkt_iter_close() as hvs_stream_has_data() returns
+ * 0 for the FIN packet, so it won't get dequeued.
+ */
+ return 0;
+ }

hvs->recv_desc = hv_pkt_iter_first(hvs->chan);
if (!hvs->recv_desc)
--
2.49.0