When transmission fails in virtio_transport_send_pkt_info, the msg_iter
might have been partially advanced. If we don't restore it, the next
attempt to send data will use an incorrect iterator state, leading to
desync and warnings like "send_pkt() returns 0, but X expected".
Specifically, this can happen in the following scenario, triggered by
the syzkaller repro:
1. A write-only VMA (PROT_WRITE only) is partially populated by a
prior TUN write that failed with -EIO but still faulted in some
pages).
2. A vsock sendmmsg call with MSG_ZEROCOPY requests transmission of a
buffer from this VMA.
3. The first packet (64KB) is sent successfully because the pages are
populated.
4. The second packet allocation fails because GUP fast pins the first page
but GUP slow fails on the next unpopulated page due to PROT_WRITE-only
permissions.
5. The iterator is advanced by the partially successful GUP (68KB total
advanced: 64KB from first packet + 4KB from second), but the send loop
breaks and only reports 64KB sent. This creates a 4KB desync.
6. The next retry starts with a non-zero iov_offset, disabling zerocopy
and falling back to copy mode.
7. In copy mode, the transmission succeeds for the next packets but
exhausts the iterator early because of the desync.
8. The final retry sees an empty iterator but zerocopy is re-enabled
(offset resets). It attempts to send the remaining bytes with zerocopy
but pins 0 pages, creating an empty packet.
9. The transport sends the empty packet, triggering the warning because
the returned bytes (header only) do not match the expected payload size.
10. The loop continues to spin, allocating ubuf_info each time, eventually
exhausting sysctl_optmem_max and returning -ENOMEM to userspace.
Restore msg_iter to its original state before the packet allocation
and transmission attempt if they fail.
Fixes: e0718bd82e ("vsock: enable setting SO_ZEROCOPY")
Reported-by: syzbot+28e5f3d207b14bae122a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=28e5f3d207b14bae122a
Assisted-by: gemini:gemini-3.1-pro
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <tavip@google.com>
Message-ID: <20260622222757.2130402-3-tavip@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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