socket: 0.983 user-level: 0.966 kernel: 0.956 network: 0.942 performance: 0.924 device: 0.914 architecture: 0.893 arm: 0.889 graphic: 0.863 x86: 0.820 PID: 0.818 files: 0.815 permissions: 0.808 ppc: 0.793 register: 0.768 debug: 0.758 vnc: 0.742 mistranslation: 0.721 VMM: 0.712 TCG: 0.696 risc-v: 0.681 boot: 0.674 assembly: 0.650 hypervisor: 0.605 peripherals: 0.601 i386: 0.596 semantic: 0.594 KVM: 0.473 virtual: 0.204 linux-user: sendmsg fails to send messages without iov Description of problem: When run via qemu `sendmsg` fails to send messages which contain a zero length `iov` but _do_ contain ancillary data. This works fine on plain Linux. A practical example: the `ell` library relies on this for setting the IV on a kernel crypto (`AF_ALG`) socket: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/ell/ell.git/tree/ell/cipher.c#n526 A message without data but only ancillary data is used to set the IV. Steps to reproduce: See [qemu_ancillary.c](/uploads/84ee20aa3b9178022847d6cd7fcf0048/qemu_ancillary.c) for a self contained testcase which sends two mesages (one with `msg_iovlen=0`, one with `msg_iovlen=1`). (Test case is to be considered GPL, as I've copied bits from `ell`) Native: ``` $ strace -esendmsg ./a.out sendmsg(6, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=NULL, msg_iovlen=0, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=36, cmsg_level=SOL_ALG, cmsg_type=0x2}], msg_controllen=40, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 0 sendmsg(6, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", iov_len=16}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=36, cmsg_level=SOL_ALG, cmsg_type=0x2}], msg_controllen=40, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 16 +++ exited with 0 +++ ``` Qemu (observe missing sendmsg call): ``` $ strace -esendmsg ~/debug/qemu/build/qemu-x86_64 ./a.out sendmsg(6, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", iov_len=16}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=36, cmsg_level=SOL_ALG, cmsg_type=0x2}], msg_controllen=40, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 16 +++ exited with 0 +++ ``` For a practical reproducer: 1. Compile and run `ell`'s `test-cipher` test case: ``` $ ~/debug/qemu/build/qemu-x86_64 ./unit/test-cipher TEST: unsupported TEST: aes TEST: aes_ctr test-cipher: unit/test-cipher.c:102: test_aes_ctr: Assertion `!r' failed. Aborted (core dumped) ``` A strace will look similar.