Linux vsock (for VMCI based transport) driver features and bug fixes
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Article ID: 313782
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VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
This article provides a summary of the important features and bug fixes implemented in the Linux vsock drivers (vsock.ko and vmw_vsock_vmci_transport.ko) contributed to the upstream Linux kernel.
Resolution
Changes implemented by Linux kernel versions:
6.19
ce5e612dd411de096aa041b9e9325ba1bec5f9f4 (“vsock: Make accept()ed sockets use custom setsockopt()”)
cdfbabfb2f0ce983fdaa42f20e5f7842178fc01e ("net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets")
1827adb11ad26b2290dc9fe2aaf54976b2439865 ("Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip")
174cd4b1e5fbd0d74c68cf3a74f5bd4923485512 ("sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h>")