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Jan Beulich authored
While frontends may submit zero-size requests (wasting a precious slot), core networking code as of at least 3ece7826 ("sock: skb_copy_ubufs support for compound pages") can't deal with SKBs when they have all zero-size fragments. Respond to empty requests right when populating fragments; all further processing is fragment based and hence won't encounter these empty requests anymore. In a way this should have been that way from the beginning: When no data is to be transferred for a particular request, there's not even a point in validating the respective grant ref. That's no different from e.g. passing NULL into memcpy() when at the same time the size is 0. This is XSA-448 / CVE-2023-46838. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
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