linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] af_vsock: SOCK

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Date:   Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:49:24 +0100
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To:     Krasnov Arseniy Vladimirovich <AVKrasnov@...rdevices.ru>
Cc:     Krasnov Arseniy <oxffffaa@...il.com>,
        Rokosov Dmitry Dmitrievich <DDRokosov@...rdevices.ru>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] af_vsock: SOCK_SEQPACKET broken buffer test

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 09:34:35AM +0000, Krasnov Arseniy Vladimirovich 
wrote:
>On 15.03.2022 11:36, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>>
>> Is this the right behavior? If read() fails because the buffer is invalid, do we throw out the whole packet?
>>
>> I was expecting the packet not to be consumed, have you tried AF_UNIX, does it have the same behavior?
>
>I've just checked AF_UNIX implementation of SEQPACKET receive in net/unix/af_unix.c. So, if 'skb_copy_datagram_msg()'
>fails, it calls 'skb_free_datagram()'. I think this means that whole sk buff will be dropped, but anyway, i'll check
>this behaviour in practice. See '__unix_dgram_recvmsg()' in net/unix/af_unix.c.
>

Yep. you are right it seems to be discarded but I don't know that
code very well, so better to test as you said ;-)

Thanks,
Stefano