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* [PATCH] iovec: make sure the caller actually wants anything in memcpy_fromiovecend
@ 2014-08-01  3:00 Sasha Levin
  2014-08-02 22:26 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sasha Levin @ 2014-08-01  3:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem, jmorris, yoshfuji, kaber; +Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, Sasha Levin

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@oracle.com>
---
 lib/iovec.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/iovec.c b/lib/iovec.c
index 7a7c2da..df3abd1 100644
--- a/lib/iovec.c
+++ b/lib/iovec.c
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ 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;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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