In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: fix...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/virtio: fix MSG_ZEROCOPY pinned-pages accounting
virtio_transport_init_zcopy_skb() uses iter->count as the size argument for msg_zerocopy_realloc(), which in turn passes it to mm_account_pinned_pages() for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK accounting. However, this function is called after virtio_transport_fill_skb() has already consumed the iterator via __zerocopy_sg_from_iter(), so on the last skb, iter->count will be 0, skipping the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK enforcement.
Pass pkt_len (the total bytes being sent) as an explicit parameter to virtio_transport_init_zcopy_skb() instead of reading the already-consumed iter->count.
This matches TCP and UDP, which both call msg_zerocopy_realloc() with the original message size.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52994
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cb36e252211506f51095fe7ced8286cc77b4c80
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6af1736b5810bc8a4a43a8518530113f5a757dc1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0117950075f0a9d5944980784c719d8ebcd4bff
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c44p-q7r3-5852