On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 09:58:00AM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 10:01:05PM +0000, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > This patch sets the owner for the skb when being sent from a socket and
> > so solves the leak caused when virtio_transport_purge_skbs() finds
> > skb->sk is always NULL and therefore never matches it with the current
> > socket. Setting the owner upon allocation fixes this.
> >
> > Fixes: 71dc9ec9ac7d ("virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff")
> > Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZCCbATwov4U+GBUv@pop-os.localdomain/
> > ---
> > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > index 957cdc01c8e8..2a2f0c1a9fbd 100644
> > --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ virtio_transport_alloc_skb(struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *info,
> > info->op,
> > info->flags);
> >
> > + if (info->vsk)
> > + skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk_vsock(info->vsk));
> > +
>
> Should we do the same also in virtio_transport_recv_pkt()?
>
> The skb in that cases is allocated in drivers/vhost/vsock.c and
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c using directly
> virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(), because we don't know in advance which socket
> it belongs to.
>
> Then in virtio_transport_recv_pkt() we look for the socket and queue it
> up. This should also solve the problem in vsock_loopback.c where we move
> skb from one socket to another.
>
That's a great point, skb_set_owner_r() in recv_pkt() will do all of the
right accounting when called by vsock_loopback_work.
I'll add that in a v2.
Thanks,
Bobby
