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Fix vsock error-handling regression introduced in v6.17-rc1

PATCH Applied Will Deacon 4 participants 6 messages Aug 18, 2025 – Aug 22, 2025

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cover Fix vsock error-handling regression introduced in v6.17-rc1

Hi all,

Here are a couple of patches fixing the vsock error-handling regression found by syzbot [1] that I introduced during the recent merge window.

Cheers,

Will

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Cc Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Cc Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Cc Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>

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Will Deacon (2):
net: Introduce skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full() vsock/virtio: Fix message iterator handling on transmit path

 include/linux/skbuff.h                  |  2 ++
 net/core/datagram.c                     | 14 ++++++++++++++
 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c |  8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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PATCH 1/2 net: Introduce skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full()

In a similar manner to copy_from_iter()/copy_from_iter_full(), introduce skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full() which reverts the iterator to its initial state when returning an error.

A subsequent fix for a vsock regression will make use of this new function.

Cc Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Cc Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |  2 ++
 net/core/datagram.c    | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
include/linux/skbuff.h +2 -0
index 14b923ddb6df..fa633657e4c0 100644
@@ -4172,6 +4172,8 @@ int skb_copy_and_crc32c_datagram_iter(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset,
 				      struct iov_iter *to, int len, u32 *crcp);
 int skb_copy_datagram_from_iter(struct sk_buff *skb, int offset,
 				 struct iov_iter *from, int len);
+int skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full(struct sk_buff *skb, int offset,
+				     struct iov_iter *from, int len);
 int zerocopy_sg_from_iter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct iov_iter *frm);
 void skb_free_datagram(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
 int skb_kill_datagram(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int flags);
net/core/datagram.c +14 -0
index 94cc4705e91d..f474b9b120f9 100644
@@ -618,6 +618,20 @@ int skb_copy_datagram_from_iter(struct sk_buff *skb, int offset,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_copy_datagram_from_iter);
 
+int skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full(struct sk_buff *skb, int offset,
+				     struct iov_iter *from, int len)
+{
+	struct iov_iter_state state;
+	int ret;
+
+	iov_iter_save_state(from, &state);
+	ret = skb_copy_datagram_from_iter(skb, offset, from, len);
+	if (ret)
+		iov_iter_restore(from, &state);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full);
+
 int zerocopy_fill_skb_from_iter(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				struct iov_iter *from, size_t length)
 {
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PATCH 2/2 vsock/virtio: Fix message iterator handling on transmit path

In reply to Will Deacon

Commit 6693731487a8 ("vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers") converted the virtio vsock transmit path to utilise nonlinear SKBs when handling large buffers. As part of this change, virtio_transport_fill_skb() was updated to call skb_copy_datagram_from_iter() instead of memcpy_from_msg() as the latter expects a single destination buffer and cannot handle nonlinear SKBs correctly.

Unfortunately, during this conversion, I overlooked the error case when the copying function returns -EFAULT due to a fault on the input buffer in userspace. In this case, memcpy_from_msg() reverts the iterator to its initial state thanks to copy_from_iter_full() whereas skb_copy_datagram_from_iter() leaves the iterator partially advanced. This results in a WARN_ONCE() from the vsock code, which expects the iterator to stay in sync with the number of bytes transmitted so that virtio_transport_send_pkt_info() can return -EFAULT when it is called again:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  'send_pkt()' returns 0, but 65536 expected
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5503 at net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:428 virtio_transport_send_pkt_info+0xd11/0xf00 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:426
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5503 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted 6.16.0-syzkaller-12063-g37816488247d #0 PREEMPT(full)
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014

Call virtio_transport_fill_skb_full() to restore the previous iterator behaviour.

Cc Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
Cc Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Cc "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Reported-by [email protected]
---
 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +5 -3
index fe92e5fa95b4..dcc8a1d5851e 100644
@@ -105,12 +105,14 @@ static int virtio_transport_fill_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				     size_t len,
 				     bool zcopy)
 {
+	struct msghdr *msg = info->msg;
+
 	if (zcopy)
-		return __zerocopy_sg_from_iter(info->msg, NULL, skb,
-					       &info->msg->msg_iter, len, NULL);
+		return __zerocopy_sg_from_iter(msg, NULL, skb,
+					       &msg->msg_iter, len, NULL);
 
 	virtio_vsock_skb_put(skb, len);
-	return skb_copy_datagram_from_iter(skb, 0, &info->msg->msg_iter, len);
+	return skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full(skb, 0, &msg->msg_iter, len);
 }
 
 static void virtio_transport_init_hdr(struct sk_buff *skb,
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#3 lore raw
In reply to Will Deacon
Quoted 10 lines · Will Deacon

Hi all,

Here are a couple of patches fixing the vsock error-handling regression found by syzbot [1] that I introduced during the recent merge window.

Cheers,

Will

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Quoted 25 lines
Cc Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Cc Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Cc Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>

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Will Deacon (2):
net: Introduce skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full() vsock/virtio: Fix message iterator handling on transmit path

 include/linux/skbuff.h                  |  2 ++
 net/core/datagram.c                     | 14 ++++++++++++++
 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c |  8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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maintainer Reviewed-by on the v1 series
#4 lore raw
In reply to Will Deacon
Quoted 25 lines · Will Deacon

Hi all,

Here are a couple of patches fixing the vsock error-handling regression found by syzbot [1] that I introduced during the recent merge window.

Cheers,

Will

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Cc Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Cc Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Cc Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>

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Quoted 12 lines

Will Deacon (2):
net: Introduce skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full() vsock/virtio: Fix message iterator handling on transmit path

 include/linux/skbuff.h                  |  2 ++
 net/core/datagram.c                     | 14 ++++++++++++++
 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c |  8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Signature · 1 line
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Stefano Garzarella is offline at the moment and may not get a chance to review this for another week. In the meantime I have reviewed this patch series:

#5 lore raw
In reply to Will Deacon
This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main) by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:

Quoted 8 lines · On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:03:53 +0100 you wrote:

Hi all,

Here are a couple of patches fixing the vsock error-handling regression found by syzbot [1] that I introduced during the recent merge window.

Cheers,

[...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [1/2] net: Introduce skb_copy_datagram_from_iter_full()

    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/b08a784a5d14
  - [2/2] vsock/virtio: Fix message iterator handling on transmit path
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/7fb1291257ea

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