Hi,

On 3/10/26 10:18 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
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> 
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>> @@ -581,11 +585,21 @@ int vsock_assign_transport(struct vsock_sock *vsk, 
>> struct vsock_sock *psk)
>>      case SOCK_SEQPACKET:
>>              if (vsock_use_local_transport(remote_cid))
>>                      new_transport = transport_local;
>> -            else if (remote_cid <= VMADDR_CID_HOST || !transport_h2g ||
>> +            else if (remote_cid <= VMADDR_CID_HOST ||
>>                       (remote_flags & VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST))
>>                      new_transport = transport_g2h;
>> -            else
>> +            else if (transport_h2g &&
>> +                     (!transport_h2g->has_remote_cid ||
>> +                      transport_h2g->has_remote_cid(vsk, remote_cid)))
>> +                    new_transport = transport_h2g;
>> +            else if (sock_net(sk)->vsock.g2h_fallback &&
>> +                     transport_g2h && transport_g2h->has_remote_cid &&
>> +                     transport_g2h->has_remote_cid(vsk, remote_cid)) {
>> +                    vsk->remote_addr.svm_flags |= VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST;
>> +                    new_transport = transport_g2h;
>> +            } else {
>>                      new_transport = transport_h2g;
>> +            }
>>              break;
> 
> The old code had `!transport_h2g` in the second else-if condition at line
> -583, which routed all CID > VMADDR_CID_HOST traffic to transport_g2h when
> no H2G transport was loaded. The new code removes this check.
> 
> When transport_h2g is NULL (no H2G transport loaded) and the G2H transport
> does not implement has_remote_cid (as is the case for VMCI and Hyper-V
> transports), what happens?
> 
> The G2H fallback branch at line +596 requires
> `transport_g2h->has_remote_cid` to be non-NULL. If it's NULL, the
> short-circuit evaluation skips this branch and executes the final else at
> line +601, setting `new_transport = transport_h2g` (which is NULL),
> ultimately returning -ENODEV.
> 
> The commit message explicitly states the intent to preserve the existing
> no-H2G fallback behavior. Does this implementation break it for G2H
> transports that do not implement the new optional has_remote_cid callback?
> 
> This affects VMCI and Hyper-V environments: when no H2G transport is
> loaded, CID > 2 connections that previously fell back to G2H now get
> ENODEV.
Other comments from AI looked like nit picking to me, but the above one
looks relevant. I forwarded verbatim all the feedback for completeness.

/P


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