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[Feature Request] Add SEQPACKET socket type for vsock #4822

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gabivlj opened this issue Sep 27, 2024 · 0 comments
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[Feature Request] Add SEQPACKET socket type for vsock #4822

gabivlj opened this issue Sep 27, 2024 · 0 comments

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gabivlj commented Sep 27, 2024

Feature Request

https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.2/csd01/virtio-v1.2-csd01.html

VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_SEQPACKET has been introduced as an option for virtio vsock. It would enable the use-case of VMs that are relaying datagrams over a vsock and need to keep the boundaries without a SOCK_STREAM combining them together.

Right now you can connect from the VM opening a vsock with SOCK_STREAM type, but not with SOCK_SEQPACKET. This would also mean that on the host side the created UDS needs to match the socket type of the vsock.

Describe the desired solution

This should work:

	socketFd, err := unix.Socket(unix.AF_VSOCK, unix.SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, 0, err
	}

	sockaddr := &unix.SockaddrVM{
		CID:  2,
		Port: 500,
	}
	if err := unix.Connect(socketFd, sockaddr); err != nil {
		return nil, 0, err
	}

And if the opened UDS on the host side doesn't match the sock type it should not go ahead with the connection.

Describe possible alternatives

I worked around this by implementing packet boundaries within the stream socket, but it's clearly a not very efficient solution and slow.

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  • Have you searched the Firecracker Issues database for similar requests?
  • Have you read all the existing relevant Firecracker documentation?
  • Have you read and understood Firecracker's core tenets?

I am curious if this is something the Firecracker team is interested in implementing for their vsock virtio component.

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