vhost: Added pad cleanup if vnet_hdr is not present.
When the Qemu launched with vhost but without tap vnet_hdr,
vhost tries to copy vnet_hdr from socket iter with size 0
to the page that may contain some trash.
That trash can be interpreted as unpredictable values for
vnet_hdr.
That leads to dropping some packets and in some cases to
stalling vhost routine when the vhost_net tries to process
packets and fails in a loop.
Qemu options:
-netdev tap,vhost=on,vnet_hdr=off,...
Signed-off-by: Andrew Melnychenko <andrew@daynix.com>
Message-Id: <20240115194840.1183077-1-andrew@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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