On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 02:37:47PM +0000, Ilia Gavrilov wrote:
During the closure of a datagram socket, the vmci_transport_recv_dgram_cb()
function may be called, which will add the packets
to the socket's backlog; then, after the receive queue is cleared,
the __release_sock() function will move the packet back from the socket's
backlog to the receive queue, which will lead to a memory leak.
sock_close
__sock_release
__vsock_release
// take ownership by user-space
lock_sock_nested
sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)
vmci_transport_release
vmci_dispatch_dgs
vmci_datagram_invoke_guest_handler
vmci_transport_recv_dgram_cb
sk_receive_skb
if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk))
[...]
(!) else if sk_add_backlog()
[...]
(!) skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_receive_queue)
release_sock
__release_sock
// move all packets from the backlog
// to the receive queue
(!) sk_backlog_rcv
vsock_queue_rcv_skb
[...]
__sock_queue_rcv_skb
if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD))
// Since the socket is "dead", the function will not
// be called
sk->sk_data_ready(sk)
sock_release_ownership(sk);
sock_put
Add a receive queue cleanup in the socket destructor to fix this.
syzkaller report:
unreferenced object 0xffff8880117bfb80 (size 240):
comm "irq/56-vmw_vmci", pid 205, jiffies 4295064448 (age 73.992s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
78 dc 26 1e 80 88 ff ff 78 dc 26 1e 80 88 ff ff x.&.....x.&.....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 da 26 1e 80 88 ff ff ..........&.....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff82be8d97>] __alloc_skb+0x287/0x330 net/core/skbuff.c:505
[<ffffffffa114bcbd>] vmci_transport_recv_dgram_cb+0xbd/0x210
[vmw_vsock_vmci_transport]
[<ffffffffa05072c6>] vmci_datagram_invoke_guest_handler+0x366/0x450
[vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffffa050ad75>] vmci_dispatch_dgs+0x235/0x490 [vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffffa050b025>] vmci_interrupt+0x55/0x290 [vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffff8137ad2b>] irq_thread_fn+0x8b/0x1a0 kernel/irq/manage.c:1205
[<ffffffff8137c7ae>] irq_thread+0x28e/0x530 kernel/irq/manage.c:1314
[<ffffffff81253dd6>] kthread+0x2e6/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
[<ffffffff81004392>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Signed-off-by: Ilia Gavrilov <[email protected]>
---
net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index 9b71479a2b29..fbafd882a12c 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -1048,6 +1048,7 @@ static void vsock_sk_destruct(struct sock *sk)
{
struct vsock_sock *vsk = vsock_sk(sk);
nit: maybe a comment here referring to vmci datagram could be nice to
have if you send a v2. In any case, also this version is fine to me:
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
+ __skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
/* Flush MSG_ZEROCOPY leftovers. */
__skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_error_queue);
--
2.47.3
