[PATCH v2 5/8] vsock/virtio: Add vsock helper for linear SKB allocation

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue Jul 01 2025 - 12:50:05 EST


In preparation for nonlinear allocations for large SKBs, introduce a
new virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() helper to return linear SKBs
unconditionally and switch all callers over to this new interface for
now.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +-
include/linux/virtio_vsock.h | 6 ++++++
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 2 +-
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
index 66a0f060770e..b13f6be452ba 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_skb(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
return NULL;

/* len contains both payload and hdr */
- skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
return NULL;

diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
index 1b5731186095..6d4a933c895a 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t ma
return skb;
}

+static inline struct sk_buff *
+virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t mask)
+{
+ return virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(size, mask);
+}
+
static inline void
virtio_vsock_skb_queue_head(struct sk_buff_head *list, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
index 3daba06ed499..2959db0404ed 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static void virtio_vsock_rx_fill(struct virtio_vsock *vsock)
vq = vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX];

do {
- skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(total_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb(total_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
break;

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
index 1b5d9896edae..c9eb7f7ac00d 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *virtio_transport_alloc_skb(struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *
if (!zcopy)
skb_len += payload_len;

- skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(skb_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb(skb_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
return NULL;

--
2.50.0.727.gbf7dc18ff4-goog