3.16.83-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com
commit 1f85e6267caca44b30c54711652b0726fadbb131 upstream.
Backport of commit fdfc5c8594c2 ("tcp: remove empty skb from write queue in error cases") in linux-4.14 stable triggered various bugs. One of them has been fixed in commit ba2ddb43f270 ("tcp: Don't dequeue SYN/FIN-segments from write-queue"), but we still have crashes in some occasions.
Root-cause is that when tcp_sendmsg() has allocated a fresh skb and could not append a fragment before being blocked in sk_stream_wait_memory(), tcp_write_xmit() might be called and decide to send this fresh and empty skb.
Sending an empty packet is not only silly, it might have caused many issues we had in the past with tp->packets_out being out of sync.
Fixes: c65f7f00c587 ("[TCP]: Simplify SKB data portion allocation with NETIF_F_SG.") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Cc: Christoph Paasch cpaasch@apple.com Acked-by: Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com Cc: Jason Baron jbaron@akamai.com Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh soheil@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski jakub.kicinski@netronome.com [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1992,6 +1992,14 @@ static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock * unlikely(tso_fragment(sk, skb, limit, mss_now, gfp))) break;
+ /* Argh, we hit an empty skb(), presumably a thread + * is sleeping in sendmsg()/sk_stream_wait_memory(). + * We do not want to send a pure-ack packet and have + * a strange looking rtx queue with empty packet(s). + */ + if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq == TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq) + break; + TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when = tcp_time_stamp;
if (unlikely(tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 1, gfp)))