Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2026 08:51:01 +0900 you wrote:
> vhost_vsock_alloc_skb() sizes the skb from iov_length(), the total guest
> descriptor length. virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt() instead adds hdr->len to
> rx_bytes and buf_used, and budgets each queued skb as SKB_TRUESIZE(0). The
> guest controls the descriptor length and hdr->len independently.
>
> A guest can therefore provide a 64 KiB descriptor while declaring a zero
> payload. The descriptor-sized skb remains queued, rx_bytes and buf_used
> remain unchanged, and only the fixed queue-entry budget limits retention.
> This is not a lifetime leak: the skb is freed when dequeued or at socket
> teardown. Repeating this across connections can nevertheless exhaust host
> memory. On Linux v7.2, 455 such descriptors retained 30,255,680 bytes for
> a 262,144-byte receive buffer; a full-payload control retained 265,984
> bytes.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net,v3] vhost/vsock: size receive SKBs from declared payload
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/d5e912448cd9
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