goto fail;
}
- if (size <= 0)
- return 0;
+ if (size <= 0) {
+ /* size can be 0 due to any of the following reasons:
+ *
+ * 1. Somebody sent us a perfectly valid zero-length UDP packet.
+ * 2. Somebody sent us a UDP packet with a bad CRC.
+ *
+ * It is unknown whether size can actually be less than zero.
+ *
+ * In the first case, the packet has to be read out, otherwise the
+ * kernel will tell us again and again about it, thus preventing
+ * reception of any further packets. So let's just read it out
+ * now and discard it later, when comparing the number of bytes
+ * received (0) with the number of bytes wanted (1, see below).
+ *
+ * In the second case, recvmsg() will fail, thus allowing us to
+ * return the error.
+ *
+ * Just to avoid passing zero-sized memchunks and NULL pointers to
+ * recvmsg(), let's force allocation of at least one byte by setting
+ * size to 1.
+ */
+ size = 1;
+ }
if (c->memchunk.length < (unsigned) size) {
size_t l;