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guest cid is read from config space, therefore it's in little endian
format and is treated as such, annotate it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The VMware VMCI transport supports loopback inside virtual machines.
This patch implements loopback for virtio-vsock.
Flow control is handled by the virtio-vsock protocol as usual. The
sending process stops transmitting on a connection when the peer's
receive buffer space is exhausted.
Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com> noticed this difference between VMCI and
virtio-vsock when a test case using loopback failed. Although loopback
isn't the main point of AF_VSOCK, it is useful for testing and
virtio-vsock must match VMCI semantics so that userspace programs run
regardless of the underlying transport.
My understanding is that loopback is not supported on the host side with
VMCI. Follow that by implementing it only in the guest driver, not the
vhost host driver.
Cc: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Reported-by: Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Similar to commit 14135f30e3 ("inet: fix sleeping inside inet_wait_for_connect()"),
sk_wait_event() needs to fix too, because release_sock() is blocking,
it changes the process state back to running after sleep, which breaks
the previous prepare_to_wait().
Switch to the new wait API.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If a pending socket is marked as rejected, we will decrease the
sk_ack_backlog twice. So don't decrement it for rejected sockets
in vsock_pending_work().
Testing of the rejected socket path was done through code
modifications.
Reported-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Adit Ranadive <aditr@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Aditya Sarwade <asarwade@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove unnecessary use of enable/disable callback notifications
and the incorrect more space available check.
The virtio_transport_tx_work handles when the TX virtqueue
has more buffers available.
Signed-off-by: Gerard Garcia <ggarcia@deic.uab.cat>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
VM sockets virtio transport implementation. This driver runs in the
guest.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This module contains the common code and header files for the following
virtio_transporto and vhost_vsock kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The virtio transport will implement graceful shutdown and the related
SO_LINGER socket option. This requires orphaning the sock but keeping
it in the table of connections after .release().
This patch adds the vsock_remove_sock() function and leaves it up to the
transport when to remove the sock.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
struct vsock_transport contains function pointers called by AF_VSOCK
core code. The transport may want its own transport-specific function
pointers and they can be added after struct vsock_transport.
Allow the transport to fetch vsock_transport. It can downcast it to
access transport-specific function pointers.
The virtio transport will use this.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
There are several places where the listener and pending or accept queue
child sockets are accessed at the same time. Lockdep is unhappy that
two locks from the same class are held.
Tell lockdep that it is safe and document the lock ordering.
Originally Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> sent a similar
patch asking whether this is safe. I have audited the code and also
covered the vsock_pending_work() function.
Suggested-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In netdevice.h we removed the structure in net-next that is being
changes in 'net'. In macsec.c and rtnetlink.c we have overlaps
between fixes in 'net' and the u64 attribute changes in 'net-next'.
The mlx5 conflicts have to do with vxlan support dependencies.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The peer may be expecting a reply having sent a request and then done a
shutdown(SHUT_WR), so tearing down the whole socket at this point seems
wrong and breaks for me with a client which does a SHUT_WR.
Looking at other socket family's stream_recvmsg callbacks doing a shutdown
here does not seem to be the norm and removing it does not seem to have
had any adverse effects that I can see.
I'm using Stefan's RFC virtio transport patches, I'm unsure of the impact
on the vmci transport.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@docker.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Cc: Adit Ranadive <aditr@vmware.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The vsock_transport structure is never modified, so declare it 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>
If skb_recv_datagram returns an skb, we should ignore the err
value returned. Otherwise, datagram receives will return EAGAIN
when they have to wait for a datagram.
Acked-by: Adit Ranadive <aditr@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The check in vmci_transport_peer_detach_cb should only allow a
detach when the qp handle of the transport matches the one in
the detach message.
Testing: Before this change, a detach from a peer on a different
socket would cause an active stream socket to register a detach.
Reviewed-by: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a thread is prepared for waiting by calling prepare_to_wait, sleeping
is not allowed until either the wait has taken place or finish_wait has
been called. The existing code in af_vsock imposed unnecessary no-sleep
assumptions to a broad list of backend functions.
This patch shrinks the influence of prepare_to_wait to the area where it
is strictly needed, therefore relaxing the no-sleep restriction there.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This reverts commit 5988818008 ("vsock: Fix
blocking ops call in prepare_to_wait")
The commit reverted with this patch caused us to potentially miss wakeups.
Since the condition is not checked between the prepare_to_wait and the
schedule(), if a wakeup happens after the condition is checked but before
the sleep happens, we will miss it. ( A description of the problem can be
found here: http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-6-sect-2 ).
By reverting the patch, the behaviour is still incorrect (since we
shouldn't sleep between the prepare_to_wait and the schedule) but at least
it will not miss wakeups.
The next patch in the series actually fixes the behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This reverts commit 0d76d6e8b2 and merge
commit c402293bd7, reversing changes made
to c89359a42e.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
This is a follow-up patch to f3d3342602 ("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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
