crypto: rng - Skip leading zero-length iovec segments

The fast per-CPU DRBG path computes its initial user destination address
straight from the iov_iter. For an ITER_IOVEC iter it reads iter_iov_addr()
and iter_iov_len() of the current segment, but when the iovec leads with
one or more zero-length segments, the current segment is one of those empty
entries. iter_iov_addr() then hands back the base of an empty segment,
which is whatever userspace put there: its base can be NULL or some other
unwritable address, since a zero-length segment is never actually touched.

Right after the setup, that address is prefaulted, and on a bogus base it
fails. A failed prefault on the very first address is treated as fatal, so
the whole read bails out to -EFAULT even though there are perfectly good
non-empty segments later in the iovec. This is reachable with something as
simple as readv() on /dev/urandom where the first iovec entry is {NULL, 0}.

Fix it by advancing the iterator by zero before reading the first address.
The iovec advance loop walks past every leading empty segment and stops at
the first non-empty one, and there's guaranteed to be such a segment
because iov_iter_count() is nonzero at this point. Empty segments that crop
up mid-stream are already skipped by the per-copy advance, so this only
needs to run once during setup.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@ciq.com>

Author: kerneltoast

crypto/rng.c

@@ -442,6 +442,16 @@ static ssize_t crypto_devrandom_read_iter(struct iov_iter *iter, bool reseed)
 			uaddr = iter->ubuf + iter->iov_offset;
 			ulen = iov_iter_count(iter);
 		} else if (iter_is_iovec(iter)) {
+			/*
+			 * Skip any leading zero-length segments first, since
+			 * uaddr would otherwise point at an empty segment's
+			 * base (which may be NULL or unwritable). Advancing by
+			 * zero walks past every leading empty segment (the
+			 * iovec advance loop stops at the first non-empty one),
+			 * and there's guaranteed to be a non-empty one because
+			 * iov_iter_count() is nonzero above.
+			 */
+			iov_iter_advance(iter, 0);
 			uaddr = iter_iov_addr(iter);
 			ulen = iter_iov_len(iter);
 		} else {