From: Michal Luczaj Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:08:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc7~37^2~55^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0386bd321d0f95d041a7b3d7b07643411b044a96;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb 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. In the zerocopy case, data is lost and the linear skb is appended with uninitialized kernel memory. Of all 3 supported virtio-based transports, only loopback-transport is affected. G2H virtio-transport rx queue operates on explicitly linear skbs; see virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() in virtio_vsock_rx_fill(). H2G vhost-transport may allocate non-linear skbs, but only for sizes that are not considered for coalescence; see PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER in virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(). 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 Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113-vsock-recv-coalescence-v2-1-552b17837cf4@rbox.co Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c index dcc8a1d5851e..26b979ad71f0 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c @@ -1359,9 +1359,11 @@ virtio_transport_recv_enqueue(struct vsock_sock *vsk, /* Try to copy small packets into the buffer of last packet queued, * to avoid wasting memory queueing the entire buffer with a small - * payload. + * payload. Skip non-linear (e.g. zerocopy) skbs; these carry payload + * in skb_shinfo. */ - 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;