vsock/virtio: fix zerocopy completion for multi-skb sends

When a large message is fragmented into multiple skbs, the zerocopy
uarg is only allocated and attached to the last skb in the loop.
Non-final skbs carry pinned user pages with no completion tracking,
so the kernel has no way to notify userspace when those pages are safe
to reuse. If the loop breaks early the uarg is never allocated at all,
leaking pinned pages with no completion notification.

Fix this by following the approach used by TCP: allocate the zerocopy
uarg (if not provided by the caller) before the send loop and attach
it to every skb via skb_zcopy_set(), which takes a reference per skb.
Each skb's completion properly decrements the refcount, and the
notification only fires after the last skb is freed.
On failure, if no data was sent, the uarg is cleanly aborted via
net_zcopy_put_abort().

This issue was initially discovered by sashiko while reviewing commit
1cb36e252211 ("vsock/virtio: fix MSG_ZEROCOPY pinned-pages accounting")
but was pre-existing.

Fixes: 581512a6dc93 ("vsock/virtio: MSG_ZEROCOPY flag support")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260420132051.217589-1-sgarzare%40redhat.com
Reported-by: Maher Azzouzi <maherazz04@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arseniy Krasnov <avkrasnov@salutedevices.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260514092948.268720-1-sgarzare@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
index 989cc252d3d34cd242c219bf82319dfa66e5ddd3..1e3409d28164e8e2f95a1996c1df32ab0ee792cd 100644 (file)
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
@@ -70,34 +70,6 @@ static bool virtio_transport_can_zcopy(const struct virtio_transport *t_ops,
        return true;
 }
 
-static int virtio_transport_init_zcopy_skb(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
-                                          struct sk_buff *skb,
-                                          struct msghdr *msg,
-                                          size_t pkt_len,
-                                          bool zerocopy)
-{
-       struct ubuf_info *uarg;
-
-       if (msg->msg_ubuf) {
-               uarg = msg->msg_ubuf;
-               net_zcopy_get(uarg);
-       } else {
-               struct ubuf_info_msgzc *uarg_zc;
-
-               uarg = msg_zerocopy_realloc(sk_vsock(vsk),
-                                           pkt_len, NULL, false);
-               if (!uarg)
-                       return -1;
-
-               uarg_zc = uarg_to_msgzc(uarg);
-               uarg_zc->zerocopy = zerocopy ? 1 : 0;
-       }
-
-       skb_zcopy_init(skb, uarg);
-
-       return 0;
-}
-
 static int virtio_transport_fill_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
                                     struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *info,
                                     size_t len,
@@ -317,8 +289,10 @@ static int virtio_transport_send_pkt_info(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
        u32 src_cid, src_port, dst_cid, dst_port;
        const struct virtio_transport *t_ops;
        struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs;
+       struct ubuf_info *uarg = NULL;
        u32 pkt_len = info->pkt_len;
        bool can_zcopy = false;
+       bool have_uref = false;
        u32 rest_len;
        int ret;
 
@@ -360,6 +334,25 @@ static int virtio_transport_send_pkt_info(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
                if (can_zcopy)
                        max_skb_len = min_t(u32, VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE,
                                            (MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE));
+
+               if (info->msg->msg_flags & MSG_ZEROCOPY &&
+                   info->op == VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RW) {
+                       uarg = info->msg->msg_ubuf;
+
+                       if (!uarg) {
+                               uarg = msg_zerocopy_realloc(sk_vsock(vsk),
+                                                           pkt_len, NULL, false);
+                               if (!uarg) {
+                                       virtio_transport_put_credit(vvs, pkt_len);
+                                       return -ENOMEM;
+                               }
+
+                               if (!can_zcopy)
+                                       uarg_to_msgzc(uarg)->zerocopy = 0;
+
+                               have_uref = true;
+                       }
+               }
        }
 
        rest_len = pkt_len;
@@ -378,27 +371,7 @@ static int virtio_transport_send_pkt_info(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
                        break;
                }
 
-               /* We process buffer part by part, allocating skb on
-                * each iteration. If this is last skb for this buffer
-                * and MSG_ZEROCOPY mode is in use - we must allocate
-                * completion for the current syscall.
-                *
-                * Pass pkt_len because msg iter is already consumed
-                * by virtio_transport_fill_skb(), so iter->count
-                * can not be used for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK pinned-pages
-                * accounting done by msg_zerocopy_realloc().
-                */
-               if (info->msg && info->msg->msg_flags & MSG_ZEROCOPY &&
-                   skb_len == rest_len && info->op == VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RW) {
-                       if (virtio_transport_init_zcopy_skb(vsk, skb,
-                                                           info->msg,
-                                                           pkt_len,
-                                                           can_zcopy)) {
-                               kfree_skb(skb);
-                               ret = -ENOMEM;
-                               break;
-                       }
-               }
+               skb_zcopy_set(skb, uarg, NULL);
 
                virtio_transport_inc_tx_pkt(vvs, skb);
 
@@ -422,6 +395,18 @@ static int virtio_transport_send_pkt_info(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
 
        virtio_transport_put_credit(vvs, rest_len);
 
+       /* msg_zerocopy_realloc() initializes the ubuf_info refcnt to 1.
+        * skb_zcopy_set() increases it for each skb, so we can drop that
+        * initial reference to keep it balanced.
+        */
+       if (have_uref) {
+               if (rest_len == pkt_len)
+                       /* No data sent, abort the notification. */
+                       net_zcopy_put_abort(uarg, true);
+               else
+                       net_zcopy_put(uarg);
+       }
+
        /* Return number of bytes, if any data has been sent. */
        if (rest_len != pkt_len)
                ret = pkt_len - rest_len;