From a39ee449f96a2cd44ce056d8a0a112211a9b1a1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:53:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] vhost: validate vhost_get_vq_desc return value vhost fails to validate negative error code from vhost_get_vq_desc causing a crash: we are using -EFAULT which is 0xfffffff2 as vector size, which exceeds the allocated size. The code in question was introduced in commit 8dd014adfea6f173c1ef6378f7e5e7924866c923 vhost-net: mergeable buffers support CVE-2014-0055 Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed