On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 05:21:53PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     vsock/virtio: fix potential unbounded skb queue
> 
> to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
>     
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      vsock-virtio-fix-potential-unbounded-skb-queue.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> 

Yea I have some doubts. It fixes the DoS at the cost of losing
messages. We are trying to fix that upstream now, maybe wait
for that?


> >From 059b7dbd20a6f0c539a45ddff1573cb8946685b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:26:52 +0000
> Subject: vsock/virtio: fix potential unbounded skb queue
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> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 059b7dbd20a6f0c539a45ddff1573cb8946685b5 upstream.
> 
> virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt() checks vvs->rx_bytes + len > vvs->buf_alloc.
> 
> virtio_transport_recv_enqueue() skips coalescing for packets
> with VIRTIO_VSOCK_SEQ_EOM.
> 
> If fed with packets with len == 0 and VIRTIO_VSOCK_SEQ_EOM,
> a very large number of packets can be queued
> because vvs->rx_bytes stays at 0.
> 
> Fix this by estimating the skb metadata size:
> 
>       (Number of skbs in the queue) * SKB_TRUESIZE(0)
> 
> Fixes: 077706165717 ("virtio/vsock: don't use skbuff state to account credit")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arseniy Krasnov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Eugenio PĂ©rez" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> [LL: Fixed conflict since this tree does not use buf_used added by commit
>  45ca7e9f0730 ("vsock/virtio: fix `rx_bytes` accounting for stream sockets")]
> Signed-off-by: Luigi Leonardi <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> @@ -283,7 +283,9 @@ static int virtio_transport_send_pkt_inf
>  static bool virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_sock *vvs,
>                                       u32 len)
>  {
> -     if (vvs->rx_bytes + len > vvs->buf_alloc)
> +     u64 skb_overhead = (skb_queue_len(&vvs->rx_queue) + 1) * 
> SKB_TRUESIZE(0);
> +
> +     if (skb_overhead + vvs->rx_bytes + len > vvs->buf_alloc)
>               return false;
>  
>       vvs->rx_bytes += len;
> 
> 
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
> 
> queue-6.6/net-fix-icmp-host-relookup-triggering-ip_rt_bug.patch
> queue-6.6/tcp-call-sk_data_ready-after-listener-migration.patch
> queue-6.6/net-sched-sch_red-replace-direct-dequeue-call-with-peek-and-qdisc_dequeue_peeked.patch
> queue-6.6/ip6_gre-use-cached-t-net-in-ip6erspan_changelink.patch
> queue-6.6/vsock-virtio-fix-potential-unbounded-skb-queue.patch


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