On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 03:58:44PM +0900, Akihiko Odaki wrote: > tun used to simply advance iov_iter when it needs to pad virtio header, > which leaves the garbage in the buffer as is. This is especially > problematic when tun starts to allow enabling the hash reporting > feature; even if the feature is enabled, the packet may lack a hash > value and may contain a hole in the virtio header because the packet > arrived before the feature gets enabled or does not contain the > header fields to be hashed. If the hole is not filled with zero, it is > impossible to tell if the packet lacks a hash value. > > In theory, a user of tun can fill the buffer with zero before calling > read() to avoid such a problem, but leaving the garbage in the buffer is > awkward anyway so fill the buffer in tun. > > Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.od...@daynix.com>
But if the user did it, you have just overwritten his value, did you not? > --- > drivers/net/tun_vnet.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c b/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c > index fe842df9e9ef..ffb2186facd3 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c > +++ b/drivers/net/tun_vnet.c > @@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ int tun_vnet_hdr_put(int sz, struct iov_iter *iter, > if (copy_to_iter(hdr, sizeof(*hdr), iter) != sizeof(*hdr)) > return -EFAULT; > > - iov_iter_advance(iter, sz - sizeof(*hdr)); > + if (iov_iter_zero(sz - sizeof(*hdr), iter) != sz - sizeof(*hdr)) > + return -EFAULT; > > return 0; > } > > -- > 2.47.1
