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[82.53.134.58]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4801fe65883sm22287425e9.15.2026.01.16.12.15.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:15:34 -0800 (PST) From: Stefano Garzarella To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , =?UTF-8?q?Eugenio=20P=C3=A9rez?= , Stefan Hajnoczi , Paolo Abeni , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wang , Claudio Imbrenda , Simon Horman , "David S. Miller" , Arseniy Krasnov , Asias He , Stefano Garzarella , Jakub Kicinski , Xuan Zhuo , Melbin K Mathew Subject: [PATCH RESEND net v5 3/4] vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:15:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20260116201517.273302-4-sgarzare@redhat.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260116201517.273302-1-sgarzare@redhat.com> References: <20260116201517.273302-1-sgarzare@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Melbin K Mathew The virtio transports derives its TX credit directly from peer_buf_alloc, which is set from the remote endpoint's SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_SIZE value. On the host side this means that the amount of data we are willing to queue for a connection is scaled by a guest-chosen buffer size, rather than the host's own vsock configuration. A malicious guest can advertise a large buffer and read slowly, causing the host to allocate a correspondingly large amount of sk_buff memory. The same thing would happen in the guest with a malicious host, since virtio transports share the same code base. Introduce a small helper, virtio_transport_tx_buf_size(), that returns min(peer_buf_alloc, buf_alloc), and use it wherever we consume peer_buf_alloc. This ensures the effective TX window is bounded by both the peer's advertised buffer and our own buf_alloc (already clamped to buffer_max_size via SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE), so a remote peer cannot force the other to queue more data than allowed by its own vsock settings. On an unpatched Ubuntu 22.04 host (~64 GiB RAM), running a PoC with 32 guest vsock connections advertising 2 GiB each and reading slowly drove Slab/SUnreclaim from ~0.5 GiB to ~57 GiB; the system only recovered after killing the QEMU process. That said, if QEMU memory is limited with cgroups, the maximum memory used will be limited. With this patch applied: Before: MemFree: ~61.6 GiB Slab: ~142 MiB SUnreclaim: ~117 MiB After 32 high-credit connections: MemFree: ~61.5 GiB Slab: ~178 MiB SUnreclaim: ~152 MiB Only ~35 MiB increase in Slab/SUnreclaim, no host OOM, and the guest remains responsive. Compatibility with non-virtio transports: - VMCI uses the AF_VSOCK buffer knobs to size its queue pairs per socket based on the local vsk->buffer_* values; the remote side cannot enlarge those queues beyond what the local endpoint configured. - Hyper-V's vsock transport uses fixed-size VMBus ring buffers and an MTU bound; there is no peer-controlled credit field comparable to peer_buf_alloc, and the remote endpoint cannot drive in-flight kernel memory above those ring sizes. - The loopback path reuses virtio_transport_common.c, so it naturally follows the same semantics as the virtio transport. This change is limited to virtio_transport_common.c and thus affects virtio-vsock, vhost-vsock, and loopback, bringing them in line with the "remote window intersected with local policy" behaviour that VMCI and Hyper-V already effectively have. Fixes: 06a8fc78367d ("VSOCK: Introduce virtio_vsock_common.ko") Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Melbin K Mathew [Stefano: small adjustments after changing the previous patch] [Stefano: tweak the commit message] Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella --- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio= _transport_common.c index 2fe341be6ce2..00f4cf86beac 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c @@ -821,6 +821,15 @@ virtio_transport_seqpacket_dequeue(struct vsock_sock *= vsk, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_transport_seqpacket_dequeue); =20 +static u32 virtio_transport_tx_buf_size(struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs) +{ + /* The peer advertises its receive buffer via peer_buf_alloc, but we + * cap it to our local buf_alloc so a remote peer cannot force us to + * queue more data than our own buffer configuration allows. + */ + return min(vvs->peer_buf_alloc, vvs->buf_alloc); +} + int virtio_transport_seqpacket_enqueue(struct vsock_sock *vsk, struct msghdr *msg, @@ -830,7 +839,7 @@ virtio_transport_seqpacket_enqueue(struct vsock_sock *v= sk, =20 spin_lock_bh(&vvs->tx_lock); =20 - if (len > vvs->peer_buf_alloc) { + if (len > virtio_transport_tx_buf_size(vvs)) { spin_unlock_bh(&vvs->tx_lock); return -EMSGSIZE; } @@ -884,7 +893,8 @@ static s64 virtio_transport_has_space(struct virtio_vso= ck_sock *vvs) * we have bytes in flight (tx_cnt - peer_fwd_cnt), the subtraction * does not underflow. */ - bytes =3D (s64)vvs->peer_buf_alloc - (vvs->tx_cnt - vvs->peer_fwd_cnt); + bytes =3D (s64)virtio_transport_tx_buf_size(vvs) - + (vvs->tx_cnt - vvs->peer_fwd_cnt); if (bytes < 0) bytes =3D 0; =20 --=20 2.52.0