When client and server establish a connection through vsock, the client send a request to the server to initiate the connection, then start a timer to wait for the server's response. When the server's RESPONSE message arrives, the timer also times out and exits. The server's RESPONSE message is processed first, and the connection is established. However, the client's timer also times out, the original processing logic of the client is to directly set the state of this vsock to CLOSE and return ETIMEDOUT. It will not notify the server when the port is released, causing the server port remain. when client's vsock_connect timeout,it should check sk state is ESTABLISHED or not. if sk state is ESTABLISHED, it means the connection is established, the client should not set the sk state to CLOSE Note: I encountered this issue on kernel-4.18, which can be fixed by this patch. Then I checked the latest code in the community and found similar issue. Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets") Signed-off-by: Zhuang Shengen <zhuangshengen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c index 413407bb646c..efb8a0937a13 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c @@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ static int vsock_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr, vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(vsk); vsock_remove_connected(vsk); goto out_wait; - } else if (timeout == 0) { + } else if ((sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) && (timeout == 0)) { err = -ETIMEDOUT; sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE; sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED; -- 2.27.0