On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 09:52:45PM +0200, Michal Luczaj wrote:
Support returning VMADDR_CID_LOCAL in case no other vsock transport is
available.
Fixes: 0e12190578d0 ("vsock: add local transport support in the vsock core")
Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
---
man vsock(7) mentions IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID vs. VMADDR_CID_LOCAL:
Ioctls
...
IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID
...
Consider using VMADDR_CID_ANY when binding instead of
getting the local CID with IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID.
Local communication
....
The local CID obtained with IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID can be
used for the same purpose, but it is preferable to use
VMADDR_CID_LOCAL.
I was wondering it that would need some rewriting, since we're adding
VMADDR_CID_LOCAL as a possible ioctl's return value.
IIRC the reason was, that if we have for example a G2H module loaded,
the ioctl returns the CID of that module (e.g. 42). So, we can use both
42 and VMADDR_CID_LOCAL to do the loopback communication, but we
encourage to always use VMADDR_CID_LOCAL. With this change we basically
don't change that, but we change the fact that if there is only the
loopback module loaded, before the ioctl returned VMADDR_CID_ANY, while
now it returns LOCAL rightly.
So, IMO we are fine.
---
net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index a1b1073a2c89f865fcdb58b38d8e7feffcf1544f..4bdb4016bd14d790f3d217d5063be64a1553b194 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -2577,6 +2577,8 @@ static long vsock_dev_do_ioctl(struct file *filp,
cid = vsock_transport_local_cid(&transport_g2h);
if (cid == VMADDR_CID_ANY)
cid = vsock_transport_local_cid(&transport_h2g);
+ if (cid == VMADDR_CID_ANY && transport_local)
+ cid = VMADDR_CID_LOCAL;
why not `cid = vsock_transport_local_cid(&transport_local)` like for
H2G?
Thanks,
Stefano
if (put_user(cid, p) != 0)
retval = -EFAULT;
--
2.49.0
