linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] vhost: Added pad cleanup if vnet

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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:48:40 +0200
From: Andrew Melnychenko <andrew@...nix.com>
To: mst@...hat.com,
	jasowang@...hat.com,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: yuri.benditovich@...nix.com,
	yan@...nix.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] vhost: Added pad cleanup if vnet_hdr is not present.

When the Qemu launched with vhost but without tap vnet_hdr,
vhost tries to copy vnet_hdr from socket iter with size 0
to the page that may contain some trash.
That trash can be interpreted as unpredictable values for
vnet_hdr.
That leads to dropping some packets and in some cases to
stalling vhost routine when the vhost_net tries to process
packets and fails in a loop.

Qemu options:
  -netdev tap,vhost=on,vnet_hdr=off,...

Signed-off-by: Andrew Melnychenko <andrew@...nix.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index f2ed7167c848..57411ac2d08b 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -735,6 +735,9 @@ static int vhost_net_build_xdp(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq,
 	hdr = buf;
 	gso = &hdr->gso;
 
+	if (!sock_hlen)
+		memset(buf, 0, pad);
+
 	if ((gso->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) &&
 	    vhost16_to_cpu(vq, gso->csum_start) +
 	    vhost16_to_cpu(vq, gso->csum_offset) + 2 >
-- 
2.43.0