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Commit 9adc89af authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller
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net: let skb_orphan_partial wake-up waiters.



Currently the mentioned helper can end-up freeing the socket wmem
without waking-up any processes waiting for more write memory.

If the partially orphaned skb is attached to an UDP (or raw) socket,
the lack of wake-up can hang the user-space.

Even for TCP sockets not calling the sk destructor could have bad
effects on TSQ.

Address the issue using skb_orphan to release the sk wmem before
setting the new sock_efree destructor. Additionally bundle the
whole ownership update in a new helper, so that later other
potential users could avoid duplicate code.

v1 -> v2:
 - use skb_orphan() instead of sort of open coding it (Eric)
 - provide an helper for the ownership change (Eric)

Fixes: f6ba8d33 ("netem: fix skb_orphan_partial()")
Suggested-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ae81feb7
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