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We receoved a bug report from someone using vmware:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 660 at kernel/sched/core.c:7389
__might_sleep+0x7d/0x90()
do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at
[<ffffffff810fa68d>] prepare_to_wait+0x2d/0x90
Modules linked in: vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event snd_ens1371 iosf_mbi gameport snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq coretemp snd_seq_device snd_pcm
snd_timer snd soundcore ppdev crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul
ghash_clmulni_intel vmw_vmci vmw_balloon i2c_piix4 shpchp parport_pc
parport acpi_cpufreq nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc btrfs
xor raid6_pq 8021q garp stp llc mrp crc32c_intel serio_raw mptspi vmwgfx
drm_kms_helper ttm drm scsi_transport_spi mptscsih e1000 ata_generic
mptbase pata_acpi
CPU: 3 PID: 660 Comm: vmtoolsd Not tainted
4.2.0-0.rc1.git3.1.fc23.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop
Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 05/20/2014
0000000000000000 0000000049e617f3 ffff88006ac37ac8 ffffffff818641f5
0000000000000000 ffff88006ac37b20 ffff88006ac37b08 ffffffff810ab446
ffff880068009f40 ffffffff81c63bc0 0000000000000061 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff818641f5>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x65
[<ffffffff810ab446>] warn_slowpath_common+0x86/0xc0
[<ffffffff810ab4d5>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x55/0x70
[<ffffffff8112551d>] ? debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x1d/0x20
[<ffffffff810fa68d>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x2d/0x90
[<ffffffff810fa68d>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x2d/0x90
[<ffffffff810da2bd>] __might_sleep+0x7d/0x90
[<ffffffff812163b3>] __might_fault+0x43/0xa0
[<ffffffff81430477>] copy_from_iter+0x87/0x2a0
[<ffffffffa039460a>] __qp_memcpy_to_queue+0x9a/0x1b0 [vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffffa0394740>] ? qp_memcpy_to_queue+0x20/0x20 [vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffffa0394757>] qp_memcpy_to_queue_iov+0x17/0x20 [vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffffa0394d50>] qp_enqueue_locked+0xa0/0x140 [vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffffa039593f>] vmci_qpair_enquev+0x4f/0xd0 [vmw_vmci]
[<ffffffffa04847bb>] vmci_transport_stream_enqueue+0x1b/0x20
[vmw_vsock_vmci_transport]
[<ffffffffa047ae05>] vsock_stream_sendmsg+0x2c5/0x320 [vsock]
[<ffffffff810fabd0>] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff81702af8>] sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50
[<ffffffff81702ff4>] SYSC_sendto+0x104/0x190
[<ffffffff8126e25a>] ? vfs_read+0x8a/0x140
[<ffffffff817042ee>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8186d9ae>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76
transport->stream_enqueue may call copy_to_user so it should
not be called inside a prepare_to_wait. Narrow the scope of
the prepare_to_wait to avoid the bad call. This also applies
to vsock_stream_recvmsg as well.
Reported-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
Tested-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This reverts commit 0d76d6e8b2507983a2cae4c09880798079007421 and merge
commit c402293bd76fbc93e52ef8c0947ab81eea3ae019, reversing changes made
to c89359a42e2a49656451569c382eed63e781153c.
The virtio-vsock device specification is not finalized yet. Michael
Tsirkin voiced concerned about merging this code when the hardware
interface (and possibly the userspace interface) could still change.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Enable virtio-vsock and vhost-vsock.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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VM sockets virtio transport implementation. This module runs in guest
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This module contains the common code and header files for the following
virtio-vsock and virtio-vhost kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The vmci_transport_notify_ops structures are never modified, so declare
them as const.
Done with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When a listen socket enqueues a connection for userspace to accept(),
the sk->sk_data_ready() callback should be invoked. In-kernel socket
users rely on this callback to detect when incoming connections are
available.
Currently the sk->sk_state_change() callback is invoked by
vmci_transport.c. This happens to work for userspace applications since
sk->sk_state_change = sock_def_wakeup() and sk->sk_data_ready =
sock_def_readable() both wake up the accept() waiter. In-kernel socket
users, on the other hand, fail to detect incoming connections.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The SS_LISTEN socket state is defined by both af_vsock.c and
vmci_transport.c. This is risky since the value could be changed in one
file and the other would be out of sync.
Rename from SS_LISTEN to VSOCK_SS_LISTEN since the constant is not part
of enum socket_state (SS_CONNECTED, ...). This way it is clear that the
constant is vsock-specific.
The big text reflow in af_vsock.c was necessary to keep to the maximum
line length. Text is unchanged except for s/SS_LISTEN/VSOCK_SS_LISTEN/.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The recent fix for the vsock sock_put issue used the wrong
initializer for the transport spin_lock causing an issue when
running with lockdep checking.
Testing: Verified fix on kernel with lockdep enabled.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In the vsock vmci_transport driver, sock_put wasn't safe to call
in interrupt context, since that may call the vsock destructor
which in turn calls several functions that should only be called
from process context. This change defers the callling of these
functions to a worker thread. All these functions were
deallocation of resources related to the transport itself.
Furthermore, an unused callback was removed to simplify the
cleanup.
Multiple customers have been hitting this issue when using
VMware tools on vSphere 2015.
Also added a version to the vmci transport module (starting from
1.0.2.0-k since up until now it appears that this module was
sharing version with vsock that is currently at 1.0.1.0-k).
Reviewed-by: Aditya Asarwade <asarwade@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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reset transport and unlock if misc_register failed.
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <omarapazanadi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In preparation for changing how struct net is refcounted
on kernel sockets pass the knowledge that we are creating
a kernel socket from sock_create_kern through to sk_alloc.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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After TIPC doesn't depend on iocb argument in its internal
implementations of sendmsg() and recvmsg() hooks defined in proto
structure, no any user is using iocb argument in them at all now.
Then we can drop the redundant iocb argument completely from kinds of
implementations of both sendmsg() and recvmsg() in the entire
networking stack.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Switch from passing msg->iov_iter.iov to passing msg itself
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Note that the code _using_ ->msg_iter at that point will be very
unhappy with anything other than unshifted iovec-backed iov_iter.
We still need to convert users to proper primitives.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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... and switch it to memcpy_to_msg()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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to msghdr
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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This encapsulates all of the skb_copy_datagram_iovec() callers
with call argument signature "skb, offset, msghdr->msg_iov, length".
When we move to iov_iters in the networking, the iov_iter object will
sit in the msghdr.
Having a helper like this means there will be less places to touch
during that transformation.
Based upon descriptions and patch from Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Right now the core vsock module is the owner of the proto family. This
means there's nothing preventing the transport module from unloading if
there are open sockets, which results in a panic. Fix that by allowing
the transport to be the owner, which will refcount it properly.
Includes version bump to 1.0.1.0-k
Passes checkpatch this time, I swear...
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:
skb_queue_tail(&sk->s_receive_queue, skb);
sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it
can be consumed and freed up. So this skb->len access is potentially
to freed up memory.
Furthermore, the skb->len can be modified by the consumer so it is
possible that the value isn't accurate.
And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses
the length argument. And since nobody actually cared about it's
value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and
even '1'.
So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there
is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get
fixed as a side effect.
Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this
issue tree-wide.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This is a follow-up patch to f3d3342602f8bc ("net: rework recvmsg
handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic").
DECLARE_SOCKADDR validates that the structure we use for writing the
name information to is not larger than the buffer which is reserved
for msg->msg_name (which is 128 bytes). Also use DECLARE_SOCKADDR
consistently in sendmsg code paths.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Hurrle <steffen@hurrle.net>
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch now always passes msg->msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must
set msg_namelen to the proper size <= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
to return msg_name to the user.
This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the
recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak
uninitialized memory.
Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't
need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the
recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must
cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets
msg_name to NULL.
Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David
Miller.
Changes since RFC:
Set msg->msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of
verify_iovec.
With this change in place I could remove "
if (!uaddr || msg_sys->msg_namelen == 0)
msg->msg_name = NULL
".
This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore
msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL.
Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change
comments to netdev style.
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Correct spelling typo in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Drop the semicolon at the end of the list_for_each_entry loop header.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This is useful for other VSOCK transport implemented outside the
net/vmw_vsock/ directory to use these headers.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If we mod with VSOCK_HASH_SIZE -1, we get 0, 1, .... 249. Actually, we
have vsock_bind_table[0 ... 250] and vsock_connected_table[0 .. 250].
In this case the last entry will never be used.
We should mod with VSOCK_HASH_SIZE instead.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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vmci_transport_recv_dgram_cb always return VMCI_SUCESS even if we fail
to allocate skb, return VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM instead.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This peace of code is called three times, let's have a helper for it.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h
include/net/tcp.h
net/mac802154/mac802154.h
Most conflicts were minor overlapping stuff.
The be2net driver brought in some fixes that added __vlan_put_tag
calls, which in net-next take an additional argument.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If gcc (e.g. 4.1.2) decides not to inline vsock_init_tables(), this will
cause a section mismatch:
WARNING: net/vmw_vsock/vsock.o(.text+0x1bc): Section mismatch in reference from the function __vsock_core_init() to the function .init.text:vsock_init_tables()
The function __vsock_core_init() references
the function __init vsock_init_tables().
This is often because __vsock_core_init lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of vsock_init_tables is wrong.
This may cause crashes if VSOCKETS=y and VMWARE_VMCI_VSOCKETS=m.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When we call vsock_core_init to init VSOCK the second time,
vsock_device.minor still points to the old dynamically allocated minor
number. misc_register will allocate it for us successfully as if we were
asking for a static one. However, when other user call misc_register to
allocate a dynamic minor number, it will give the one used by
vsock_core_init(), causing this:
[ 405.470687] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0xcc/0xf0()
[ 405.470689] Hardware name: OptiPlex 790
[ 405.470690] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/dev/char/10:54'
Always set vsock_device.minor to MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR before we
register.
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: Reilly Grant <grantr@vmware.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/nfc/microread/mei.c
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c
Pull in 'net' to get Eric Biederman's AF_UNIX fix, upon which
some cleanups are going to go on-top.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The code misses to update the msg_namelen member to 0 and therefore
makes net/socket.c leak the local, uninitialized sockaddr_storage
variable to userland -- 128 bytes of kernel stack memory.
Cc: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In case we received no data on the call to skb_recv_datagram(), i.e.
skb->data is NULL, vmci_transport_dgram_dequeue() will return with 0
without updating msg_namelen leading to net/socket.c leaking the local,
uninitialized sockaddr_storage variable to userland -- 128 bytes of
kernel stack memory.
Fix this by moving the already existing msg_namelen assignment a few
lines above.
Cc: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Pull net into net-next to get the synchronize_net() bug fix in
bonding.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The VMCI context ID of a virtual machine may change at any time. There
is a VMCI event which signals this but datagrams may be processed before
this is handled. It is therefore necessary to be flexible about the
destination context ID of any datagrams received. (It can be assumed to
be correct because it is provided by the hypervisor.) The context ID on
existing sockets should be updated to reflect how the hypervisor is
currently referring to the system.
Signed-off-by: Reilly Grant <grantr@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The resource ID used for VM socket control packets (0) is already
used for the VMCI_GET_CONTEXT_ID hypercall so a new ID (15) must be
used when the guest sends these datagrams to the hypervisor.
The hypervisor context ID must also be removed from the internal
blacklist.
Signed-off-by: Reilly Grant <grantr@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Allow our own family as the protocol value for socket creation.
Reported-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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There isn't really a need to have a separate file for it.
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This is the default behavior for a looooooong time.
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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VM Sockets allows communication between virtual machines and the hypervisor.
User level applications both in a virtual machine and on the host can use the
VM Sockets API, which facilitates fast and efficient communication between
guest virtual machines and their host. A socket address family, designed to be
compatible with UDP and TCP at the interface level, is provided.
Today, VM Sockets is used by various VMware Tools components inside the guest
for zero-config, network-less access to VMware host services. In addition to
this, VMware's users are using VM Sockets for various applications, where
network access of the virtual machine is restricted or non-existent. Examples
of this are VMs communicating with device proxies for proprietary hardware
running as host applications and automated testing of applications running
within virtual machines.
The VMware VM Sockets are similar to other socket types, like Berkeley UNIX
socket interface. The VM Sockets module supports both connection-oriented
stream sockets like TCP, and connectionless datagram sockets like UDP. The VM
Sockets protocol family is defined as "AF_VSOCK" and the socket operations
split for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM.
For additional information about the use of VM Sockets, please refer to the
VM Sockets Programming Guide available at:
https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vmci-sdk/
Signed-off-by: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy king <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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