• Eric Dumazet's avatar
    net: do not leave an empty skb in write queue · 72bf4f17
    Eric Dumazet authored
    Under memory stress conditions, tcp_sendmsg_locked()
    might call sk_stream_wait_memory(), thus releasing the socket lock.
    
    If a fresh skb has been allocated prior to this,
    we should not leave it in the write queue otherwise
    tcp_write_xmit() could panic.
    
    This apparently does not happen often, but a future change
    in __sk_mem_raise_allocated() that Shakeel and others are
    considering would increase chances of being hurt.
    
    Under discussion is to remove this controversial part:
    
        /* Fail only if socket is _under_ its sndbuf.
         * In this case we cannot block, so that we have to fail.
         */
        if (sk->sk_wmem_queued + size >= sk->sk_sndbuf) {
            /* Force charge with __GFP_NOFAIL */
            if (memcg_charge && !charged) {
                mem_cgroup_charge_skmem(sk->sk_memcg, amt,
                    gfp_memcg_charge() | __GFP_NOFAIL);
            }
            return 1;
        }
    
    Fixes: fdfc5c85 ("tcp: remove empty skb from write queue in error cases")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231019112457.1190114-1-edumazet@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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