Commit f6baca2d authored by Andrew Melnychenko's avatar Andrew Melnychenko Committed by Michael S. Tsirkin

vhost: Added pad cleanup if vnet_hdr is not present.

When the Qemu launched with vhost but without tap vnet_hdr,
vhost tries to copy vnet_hdr from socket iter with size 0
to the page that may contain some trash.
That trash can be interpreted as unpredictable values for
vnet_hdr.
That leads to dropping some packets and in some cases to
stalling vhost routine when the vhost_net tries to process
packets and fails in a loop.

Qemu options:
  -netdev tap,vhost=on,vnet_hdr=off,...
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Melnychenko <andrew@daynix.com>
Message-Id: <20240115194840.1183077-1-andrew@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
parent e8f897f4
......@@ -735,6 +735,9 @@ static int vhost_net_build_xdp(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq,
hdr = buf;
gso = &hdr->gso;
if (!sock_hlen)
memset(buf, 0, pad);
if ((gso->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) &&
vhost16_to_cpu(vq, gso->csum_start) +
vhost16_to_cpu(vq, gso->csum_offset) + 2 >
......
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