Re: [PATCH 1/5] vhost/vsock: Avoid allocating arbitrarily-sized SKBs

Will Deacon
2025-06-30T12:51:13Z

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 12:36:46PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 02:15:39PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > vhost_vsock_alloc_skb() returns NULL for packets advertising a length
> > larger than VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE in the packet header. However,
> > this is only checked once the SKB has been allocated and, if the length
> > in the packet header is zero, the SKB may not be freed immediately.
> >
> > Hoist the size check before the SKB allocation so that an iovec larger
> > than VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE + the header size is rejected
> > outright. The subsequent check on the length field in the header can
> > then simply check that the allocated SKB is indeed large enough to hold
> > the packet.
>
> LGTM, but should we consider this as stable material adding a Fixes tag?

Yup, absolutely. I put it first so that it can be backported easily but,
for some reason, I thought networking didn't CC stable. I have no idea
_why_ I thought that, so I'll add it (and a Fixes: line) for v2!

That seems to be:

Fixes: 71dc9ec9ac7d ("virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff")

from what I can tell.

Cheers,

Will