linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iovec: make sure the caller actually wants anything in memcpy

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Date:	Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:26:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sasha.levin@...cle.com
Cc:	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iovec: make sure the caller actually wants anything in
 memcpy_fromiovecend

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:00:35 -0400

> 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@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

BTW, if you look at the function above this one (memcpy_toiovecend) it avoids
this issue by encompassing all of the logic in a top-level loop which terminates
when len <= 0.
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