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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Improve SOCK_SEQPACKET receive logic
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On 04.07.2021 11:08, Arseny Krasnov wrote:
> This patchset modifies receive logic for SOCK_SEQPACKET.
> Difference between current implementation and this version is that
> now reader is woken up when there is at least one RW packet in rx
> queue of socket and data is copied to user's buffer, while merged
> approach wake up user only when whole message is received and kept
> in queue. New implementation has several advantages:
> 1) There is no limit for message length. Merged approach requires
> that length must be smaller than 'peer_buf_alloc', otherwise
> transmission will stuck.
> 2) There is no need to keep whole message in queue, thus no
> 'kmalloc()' memory will be wasted until EOR is received.
>
> Also new approach has some feature: as fragments of message
> are copied until EOR is received, it is possible that part of
> message will be already in user's buffer, while rest of message
> still not received. And if user will be interrupted by signal or
> timeout with part of message in buffer, it will exit receive loop,
> leaving rest of message in queue. To solve this problem special
> callback was added to transport: it is called when user was forced
> to leave exit loop and tells transport to drop any packet until
> EOR met. When EOR is found, this mode is disabled and normal packet
> processing started. Note, that when 'drop until EOR' mode is on,
> incoming packets still inserted in queue, reader will be woken up,
> tries to copy data, but nothing will be copied until EOR found.
> It was possible to drain such unneeded packets it rx work without
> kicking user, but implemented way is simplest. Anyway, i think
> such cases are rare.
>
> New test also added - it tries to copy to invalid user's
> buffer.
>
> Arseny Krasnov (16):
> af_vsock/virtio/vsock: change seqpacket receive logic
> af_vsock/virtio/vsock: remove 'seqpacket_has_data' callback
> virtio/vsock: remove 'msg_count' based logic
> af_vsock/virtio/vsock: add 'seqpacket_drop()' callback
> virtio/vsock: remove record size limit for SEQPACKET
> vsock_test: SEQPACKET read to broken buffer
>
> drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/virtio_vsock.h | 7 +-
> include/net/af_vsock.h | 4 +-
> net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 44 ++++----
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 2 +-
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 103 ++++++++-----------
> net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.c | 2 +-
> tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 8 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
>
> v1 -> v2:
> Patches reordered and reorganized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arseny Krasnov <arseny.krasnov@kaspersky.com>
> ---
> cv.txt | 0
> 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 cv.txt
>
> diff --git a/cv.txt b/cv.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
Sorry, forget to remove my tmp file

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