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Next time a packet is sent,\niotlb_access_ok() loops indefinitely due to that erroneous entry.\n\n\tCall Trace:\n\t \n\t iotlb_access_ok+0x21b/0x3e0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1340\n\t vq_meta_prefetch+0xbc/0x280 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1366\n\t vhost_transport_do_send_pkt+0xe0/0xfd0 drivers/vhost/vsock.c:104\n\t vhost_worker+0x23d/0x3d0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:372\n\t kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:377\n\t ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295\n\t \n\nReported by syzbot at:\n\thttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0abd373e2e50d704db87\n\nTo fix this, do two things:\n\n1. Return -EINVAL in vhost_chr_write_iter() when userspace asks to map\n a range with size 0.\n2. 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