From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
===============
[ 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
net/core/iovec.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/iovec.c b/net/core/iovec.c
index dcf0bd5fbc20..8254497bda65 100644
--- a/net/core/iovec.c
+++ b/net/core/iovec.c
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy_toiovecend);
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;
--
2.0.4
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