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vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb

vsock/virtio common tries to coalesce buffers in rx queue: if a linear skb
(with a spare tail room) is followed by a small skb (length limited by
GOOD_COPY_LEN = 128), an attempt is made to join them.

Since the introduction of MSG_ZEROCOPY support, assumption that a small skb
will always be linear is incorrect. In the zerocopy case, data is lost and
the linear skb is appended with uninitialized kernel memory.

Of all 3 supported virtio-based transports, only loopback-transport is
affected. G2H virtio-transport rx queue operates on explicitly linear skbs;
see virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() in virtio_vsock_rx_fill(). H2G
vhost-transport may allocate non-linear skbs, but only for sizes that are
not considered for coalescence; see PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER in
virtio_vsock_alloc_skb().

Ensure only linear skbs are coalesced. Note that skb_tailroom(last_skb) > 0
guarantees last_skb is linear.

Fixes: 581512a6dc93 ("vsock/virtio: MSG_ZEROCOPY flag support")
Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113-vsock-recv-coalescence-v2-1-552b17837cf4@rbox.co
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

authored by

Michal Luczaj and committed by
Jakub Kicinski
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net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
··· 1359 1359 1360 1360 /* Try to copy small packets into the buffer of last packet queued, 1361 1361 * to avoid wasting memory queueing the entire buffer with a small 1362 - * payload. 1362 + * payload. Skip non-linear (e.g. zerocopy) skbs; these carry payload 1363 + * in skb_shinfo. 1363 1364 */ 1364 - if (len <= GOOD_COPY_LEN && !skb_queue_empty(&vvs->rx_queue)) { 1365 + if (len <= GOOD_COPY_LEN && !skb_queue_empty(&vvs->rx_queue) && 1366 + !skb_is_nonlinear(skb)) { 1365 1367 struct virtio_vsock_hdr *last_hdr; 1366 1368 struct sk_buff *last_skb; 1367 1369