From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>,
Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y 3/3] vhost/vsock: size receive SKBs from declared payload
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 19:30:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261115002958.559603-3-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261115002958.559603-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit d5e912448cd98b261eba8e35ab838f2dc69a79f5 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
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 1fc03038e5543..43533ae6ce211 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ 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;
@@ -344,34 +344,32 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_skb(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
if (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);
nbytes = copy_from_iter(skb->data, payload_len, &iov_iter);
--
2.53.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-15 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 1:19 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] vhost/vsock: size receive SKBs from declared payload" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree Sasha Levin
2026-11-15 0:30 ` [PATCH 6.1.y 1/3] vsock/virtio: Move length check to callers of virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() Sasha Levin
2026-11-15 0:30 ` [PATCH 6.1.y 2/3] vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() Sasha Levin
2026-11-15 0:30 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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