Eric Dumazet d4011239f4 tcp: guarantee forward progress in tcp_sendmsg() ...

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>

2016-05-04 12:44:36 -04:00

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