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potentially allowing more data to be queued than the\npeer can handle.\n\nReuse virtio_transport_has_space() which already handles this case and\nadd a comment to make it clear why we are doing that.\n\n[Stefano: use virtio_transport_has_space() instead of duplicating the code]\n[Stefano: tweak the commit message]" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b", "lessThan": "d96de882d6b99955604669d962ae14e94b66a551", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b", "lessThan": "02f9af192b98d15883c70dd41ac76d1b0217c899", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b", "lessThan": "d05bc313788f0684b27f0f5b60c52a844669b542", 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