vsock/virtio: Fix message iterator handling on transmit path

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Commit 6693731487 ("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: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Fixes: 6693731487 ("vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers")
Reported-by: syzbot+b4d960daf7a3c7c2b7b1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250818180355.29275-3-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[halves: adjust __zerocopy_sg_from_iter() parameters]
Signed-off-by: Heitor Alves de Siqueira <halves@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Will Deacon 2026-01-26 17:16:59 -03:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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