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Commit ef015786 authored by Herbert Xu's avatar Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller
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[TCP]: Fix sk_forward_alloc underflow in tcp_sendmsg


I've finally found a potential cause of the sk_forward_alloc underflows
that people have been reporting sporadically.

When tcp_sendmsg tacks on extra bits to an existing TCP_PAGE we don't
check sk_forward_alloc even though a large amount of time may have
elapsed since we allocated the page.  In the mean time someone could've
come along and liberated packets and reclaimed sk_forward_alloc memory.

This patch makes tcp_sendmsg check sk_forward_alloc every time as we
do in do_tcp_sendpages.
 
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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