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2016-02-13vsock: Fix blocking ops call in prepare_to_waitLaura Abbott1-13/+6
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>
2015-12-08Revert "Merge branch 'vsock-virtio'"Stefan Hajnoczi5-1828/+0
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>
2015-12-03VSOCK: Add Makefile and KconfigAsias He2-0/+20
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>
2015-12-03VSOCK: Introduce virtio-vsock.koAsias He1-0/+466
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>
2015-12-03VSOCK: Introduce virtio-vsock-common.koAsias He1-0/+1272
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>
2015-12-03VSOCK: Introduce vsock_find_unbound_socket and vsock_bind_dgram_genericAsias He1-0/+70
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>
2015-11-23VSOCK: constify vmci_transport_notify_ops structuresJulia Lawall4-5/+6
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>
2015-11-04VSOCK: call sk->sk_data_ready() on accept()Stefan Hajnoczi1-1/+1
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>
2015-11-01VSOCK: define VSOCK_SS_LISTEN once onlyStefan Hajnoczi2-22/+19
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>
2015-10-22VSOCK: Fix lockdep issue.Jorgen Hansen1-1/+1
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>
2015-10-22VSOCK: sock_put wasn't safe to call in interrupt contextJorgen Hansen2-91/+86
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>
2015-10-21vsock: fix missing cleanup when misc_register failedGao feng1-3/+4
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>
2015-05-11net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_allocEric W. Biederman2-4/+5
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>
2015-03-02net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsgYing Xue2-13/+10
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>
2015-02-04vmci: propagate msghdr all way down to __qp_memcpy_to_queue()Al Viro1-2/+1
Switch from passing msg->iov_iter.iov to passing msg itself Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-12-09put iov_iter into msghdrAl Viro1-1/+2
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>
2014-12-09vmci: propagate msghdr all way down to __qp_memcpy_from_queue()Al Viro1-2/+2
... and switch it to memcpy_to_msg() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-24vmci_transport: switch ->enqeue_dgram, ->enqueue_stream and ->dequeue_stream ↵Al Viro2-10/+10
to msghdr Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-05net: Add and use skb_copy_datagram_msg() helper.David S. Miller1-2/+1
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>
2014-05-05vsock: Make transport the proto ownerAndy King1-25/+22
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>
2014-04-11net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks.David S. Miller2-3/+3
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>
2014-01-18net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name sizeSteffen Hurrle1-3/+1
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>
2013-11-20net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logicHannes Frederic Sowa2-4/+0
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>
2013-10-14treewide: Fix typo in KconfigMasanari Iida1-1/+1
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>
2013-08-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-1/+1
2013-08-05net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c: drop unneeded semicolonJulia Lawall1-1/+1
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>
2013-07-27VSOCK: Move af_vsock.h and vsock_addr.h to include/netAsias He6-212/+5
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>
2013-06-23VSOCK: Fix VSOCK_HASH and VSOCK_CONN_HASHAsias He1-3/+3
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>
2013-06-23VSOCK: Remove unnecessary labelAsias He1-2/+1
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-23VSOCK: Return VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM when fails to allocate skbAsias He1-7/+8
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>
2013-06-23VSOCK: Introduce vsock_auto_bind helperAsias He1-28/+21
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>
2013-04-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-2/+2
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>
2013-04-25VSOCK: Drop bogus __init annotation from vsock_init_tables()Geert Uytterhoeven1-1/+1
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>
2013-04-25VSOCK: Fix misc device registrationAsias He1-1/+1
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>
2013-04-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2-1/+4
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>
2013-04-07VSOCK: Fix missing msg_namelen update in vsock_stream_recvmsg()Mathias Krause1-0/+2
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>
2013-04-07VSOCK: vmci - fix possible info leak in vmci_transport_dgram_dequeue()Mathias Krause1-1/+2
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>
2013-04-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller4-26/+23
Pull net into net-next to get the synchronize_net() bug fix in bonding. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-02VSOCK: Handle changes to the VMCI context ID.Reilly Grant4-26/+23
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>
2013-03-15VSOCK: Support VM sockets connected to the hypervisor.Reilly Grant2-3/+16
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>
2013-02-18VSOCK: Don't reject PF_VSOCK protocolAndy King1-1/+1
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>
2013-02-18VSOCK: get rid of vsock_version.hDmitry Torokhov2-24/+1
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>
2013-02-18VSOCK: get rid of EXPORT_SYMTABDmitry Torokhov2-4/+0
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>
2013-02-10VSOCK: Introduce VM SocketsAndy King12-0/+5862
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>