Commit 002541ef authored Nov 19, 2025 by Michal Luczaj Committed by Jakub Kicinski Nov 20, 2025

vsock: Ignore signal/timeout on connect() if already established

During connect(), acting on a signal/timeout by disconnecting an already
established socket leads to several issues:

1. connect() invoking vsock_transport_cancel_pkt() ->
   virtio_transport_purge_skbs() may race with sendmsg() invoking
   virtio_transport_get_credit(). This results in a permanently elevated
   `vvs->bytes_unsent`. Which, in turn, confuses the SOCK_LINGER handling.

2. connect() resetting a connected socket's state may race with socket
   being placed in a sockmap. A disconnected socket remaining in a sockmap
   breaks sockmap's assumptions. And gives rise to WARNs.

3. connect() transitioning SS_CONNECTED -> SS_UNCONNECTED allows for a
   transport change/drop after TCP_ESTABLISHED. Which poses a problem for
   any simultaneous sendmsg() or connect() and may result in a
   use-after-free/null-ptr-deref.

Do not disconnect socket on signal/timeout. Keep the logic for unconnected
sockets: they don't linger, can't be placed in a sockmap, are rejected by
sendmsg().

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/e07fd95c-9a38-4eea-9638-133e38c2ec9b@rbox.co/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250317-vsock-trans-signal-race-v4-0-fc8837f3f1d4@rbox.co/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/60f1b7db-3099-4f6a-875e-af9f6ef194f6@rbox.co/



Fixes: d021c344 ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119-vsock-interrupted-connect-v2-1-70734cf1233f@rbox.co


Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

parent 7d277a7a

net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c

+31 −9

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1661,18 +1661,40 @@ static int vsock_connect(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr addr,
		timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
		lock_sock(sk);

		if (signal_pending(current)) {
		err = sock_intr_errno(timeout);
		sk->sk_state = sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED ? TCP_CLOSING : TCP_CLOSE;
		sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED;
		vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(vsk);
		vsock_remove_connected(vsk);
		goto out_wait;
		} else if ((sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) && (timeout == 0)) {
		err = -ETIMEDOUT;
		/* Connection established. Whatever happens to socket once we
		* release it, that's not connect()'s concern. No need to go
		* into signal and timeout handling. Call it a day.
		*
		* Note that allowing to "reset" an already established socket
		* here is racy and insecure.
		*/
		if (sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED)
		break;

		/* If connection was _not_ established and a signal/timeout came
		* to be, we want the socket's state reset. User space may want
		* to retry.
		*
		* sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED implies that socket is not on
		* vsock_connected_table. We keep the binding and the transport
		* assigned.
		*/
		if (signal_pending(current) \|\| timeout == 0) {
		err = timeout == 0 ? -ETIMEDOUT : sock_intr_errno(timeout);

		/* Listener might have already responded with
		* VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RESPONSE. Its handling expects our
		* sk_state == TCP_SYN_SENT, which hereby we break.
		* In such case VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RST will follow.
		*/
		sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
		sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED;

		/* Try to cancel VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_REQUEST skb sent out by
		* transport->connect().
		*/
		vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(vsk);

		goto out_wait;
		}