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tcp: guarantee forward progress in tcp_sendmsg()

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Under high rx pressure, it is possible tcp_sendmsg() never has a
chance to allocate an skb and loop forever as sk_flush_backlog()
would always return true.

Fix this by calling sk_flush_backlog() only if one skb had been
allocated and filled before last backlog check.

Fixes: d41a69f1d3 ("tcp: make tcp_sendmsg() aware of socket backlog")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2016-05-02 21:49:25 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent cba6532100
commit d4011239f4
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
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net/ipv4/tcp.c
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@ -1084,6 +1084,7 @@ int tcp_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
struct sockcm_cookie sockc;
int flags, err, copied = 0;
int mss_now = 0, size_goal, copied_syn = 0;
bool process_backlog = false;
bool sg;
long timeo;
@ -1167,9 +1168,10 @@ new_segment:
if (!sk_stream_memory_free(sk))
goto wait_for_sndbuf;
if (sk_flush_backlog(sk))
if (process_backlog && sk_flush_backlog(sk)) {
process_backlog = false;
goto restart;
}
skb = sk_stream_alloc_skb(sk,
select_size(sk, sg),
sk->sk_allocation,
@ -1177,6 +1179,7 @@ new_segment:
if (!skb)
goto wait_for_memory;
process_backlog = true;
/*
* Check whether we can use HW checksum.
*/