3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 06ebb06d49486676272a3c030bfeef4bd969a8e6 ]
Check for cases when the caller requests 0 bytes instead of running off
and dereferencing potentially invalid iovecs.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/iovec.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/net/core/iovec.c
+++ b/net/core/iovec.c
@@ -157,6 +157,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy_fromiovec);
int memcpy_fromiovecend(unsigned char *kdata, const struct iovec *iov,
int offset, int len)
{
+ /* No data? Done! */
+ if (len == 0)
+ return 0;
+
/* Skip over the finished iovecs */
while (offset >= iov->iov_len) {
offset -= iov->iov_len;
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