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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2015-04-21 18:32:24 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-04-22 14:13:11 -0400
commitd83769a580f1132ac26439f50068a29b02be535e (patch)
treeb18a104e87454d5505c3d0e5f1c2e7f26ce9b89c /lib
parent5e6c94a999f67f120c6bbba71bbee840dfee6338 (diff)
tcp: fix possible deadlock in tcp_send_fin()
Using sk_stream_alloc_skb() in tcp_send_fin() is dangerous in case a huge process is killed by OOM, and tcp_mem[2] is hit. To be able to free memory we need to make progress, so this patch allows FIN packets to not care about tcp_mem[2], if skb allocation succeeded. In a follow-up patch, we might abort tcp_send_fin() infinite loop in case TIF_MEMDIE is set on this thread, as memory allocator did its best getting extra memory already. This patch reverts d22e15371811 ("tcp: fix tcp fin memory accounting") Fixes: d22e15371811 ("tcp: fix tcp fin memory accounting") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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