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Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgarzare-redhat ([193.207.176.59]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-b842a51183asm1175084666b.49.2026.01.09.08.18.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:18:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 17:18:19 +0100 From: Stefano Garzarella To: Michal Luczaj Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?utf-8?B?UMOpcmV6?= , Stefan Hajnoczi , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Arseniy Krasnov , kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb Message-ID: References: <20260108-vsock-recv-coalescence-v1-0-26f97bb9a99b@rbox.co> <20260108-vsock-recv-coalescence-v1-1-26f97bb9a99b@rbox.co> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260108-vsock-recv-coalescence-v1-1-26f97bb9a99b@rbox.co> On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 10:54:54AM +0100, Michal Luczaj wrote: >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 >--- > 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)) { Why here? I mean we can do the check even early, something like this: --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c @@ -1361,7 +1361,8 @@ virtio_transport_recv_enqueue(struct vsock_sock *vsk, * to avoid wasting memory queueing the entire buffer with a small * payload. */ - if (len <= GOOD_COPY_LEN && !skb_queue_empty(&vvs->rx_queue)) { + if (len <= GOOD_COPY_LEN && !skb_queue_empty(&vvs->rx_queue) && + !skb_is_nonlinear(skb)) { struct virtio_vsock_hdr *last_hdr; struct sk_buff *last_skb; I would also add the reason in the comment before that to make it clear. Thanks for the fix! Stefano > memcpy(skb_put(last_skb, skb->len), skb->data, skb->len); > free_pkt = true; > last_hdr->flags |= hdr->flags; > >-- >2.52.0 >