Revision ae6fcfbf5f03de3407b809aaee319330d3dc7f8b authored by Stefano Garzarella on 17 October 2019, 12:44:03 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 18 October 2019, 17:19:43 UTC
If the remote peer doesn't respect the credit information
(buf_alloc, fwd_cnt), sending more data than it can send,
we should drop the packets to prevent a malicious peer
from using all of our memory.

This is patch follows the VIRTIO spec: "VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RW data
packets MUST only be transmitted when the peer has sufficient
free buffer space for the payload"

Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@free.fr>
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