netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix recv with flags MSG_WAITALL

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:07:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sd@...asysnail.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rh-bugzilla@...c.de, dan@...sornet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix recv with flags MSG_WAITALL | MSG_PEEK

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:19:25 +0200

> Currently, tcp_recvmsg enters a busy loop in sk_wait_data if called
> with flags = MSG_WAITALL | MSG_PEEK.
> 
> sk_wait_data waits for sk_receive_queue not empty, but in this case,
> the receive queue is not empty, but does not contain any skb that we
> can use.
> 
> Add a "last skb seen on receive queue" argument to sk_wait_data, so
> that it sleeps until the receive queue has new skbs.
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99461
> Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18493
> Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205258
> Reported-by: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla@...c.de>
> Reported-by: Dan Searle <dan@...sornet.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

Applied, thanks.
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