[PATCH v5 3/3] vsock: use sock_error() to consume sk_err after a failed connect

Nguyen Dinh Phi <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:09:32 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.virtualization,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
vsock_connect() returns sk_err to userspace but does not clear it:
  if (sk->sk_err) {
            err = -sk->sk_err;

For a blocking connect() the error has already been delivered as
connect()'s return value, so leaving it set causes subsequent operations
like poll()/epoll() to keep reporting POLLERR even though the connect
failure was already delivered.

The error should be consumed once it has been returned to userspace.
Switch to sock_error(), which reads and clears sk_err atomically,
matching the behavior of other protocol implementations such as
__inet_stream_connect().

Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Tested-by: Wupeng Ma <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Dinh Phi <[email protected]>
---
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index b59890bbd217..1a287719f24a 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -1842,12 +1842,10 @@ static int vsock_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr_unsized *addr,
 		prepare_to_wait(sk_sleep(sk), &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 	}
 
-	if (sk->sk_err) {
-		err = -sk->sk_err;
+	err = sock_error(sk);
+	if (err) {
 		sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
 		sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED;
-	} else {
-		err = 0;
 	}
 
 out_wait:
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