From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:26:22 -0700

> As Jason Baron explained in commit 790ba4566c1a ("tcp: set SOCK_NOSPACE
> under memory pressure"), it is crucial we properly set SOCK_NOSPACE
> when needed.
> 
> However, Jason patch had a bug, because the 'nonblocking' status
> as far as sk_stream_wait_memory() is concerned is governed
> by MSG_DONTWAIT flag passed at sendmsg() time :
> 
>     long timeo = sock_sndtimeo(sk, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT);
> 
> So it is very possible that tcp sendmsg() calls sk_stream_wait_memory(),
> and that sk_stream_wait_memory() returns -EAGAIN with SOCK_NOSPACE
> cleared, if sk->sk_sndtimeo has been set to a small (but not zero)
> value.
> 
> This patch removes the 'noblock' variable since we must always
> set SOCK_NOSPACE if -EAGAIN is returned.
> 
> It also renames the do_nonblock label since we might reach this
> code path even if we were in blocking mode.
> 
> Fixes: 790ba4566c1a ("tcp: set SOCK_NOSPACE under memory pressure")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Vladimir Rutsky  <[email protected]>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

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