1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index d9eac7069101..3e19d321067a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,17 @@ call_verify(struct rpc_task *task)
         u32     *p = iov->iov_base, n;
         int error = -EACCES;
 
+        if ((task->tk_rqstp->rq_rcv_buf.len & 3) != 0) {
+                /* RFC-1014 says that the representation of XDR data must be a
+                 * multiple of four bytes
+                 * - if it isn't pointer subtraction in the NFS client may give
+                 *   undefined results
+                 */
+                printk(KERN_WARNING
+                       "call_verify: XDR representation not a multiple of"
+                       " 4 bytes: 0x%x\n", task->tk_rqstp->rq_rcv_buf.len);
+                goto out_eio;
+        }
         if ((len -= 3) < 0)
                 goto out_overflow;
         p += 1; /* skip XID */