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-rw-r--r--iov.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/iov.c b/iov.c
index b3330610bb..60705c73ab 100644
--- a/iov.c
+++ b/iov.c
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ ssize_t iov_send_recv(int sockfd, struct iovec *iov, unsigned iov_cnt,
 {
     ssize_t ret;
     unsigned si, ei;            /* start and end indexes */
+    if (bytes == 0) {
+        /* Catch the do-nothing case early, as otherwise we will pass an
+         * empty iovec to sendmsg/recvmsg(), and not all implementations
+         * accept this.
+         */
+        return 0;
+    }
 
     /* Find the start position, skipping `offset' bytes:
      * first, skip all full-sized vector elements, */