FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tcp: call sk_wmem_schedule before sk_mem_charge in zerocopy" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-22 15:41:26
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [tcp], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Neal Cardwell, Linus Torvalds

The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to [off-list ref].

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 358ed624207012f03318235017ac6fb41f8af592 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Talal Ahmad <redacted>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 11:43:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: call sk_wmem_schedule before sk_mem_charge in zerocopy
 path

sk_wmem_schedule makes sure that sk_forward_alloc has enough
bytes for charging that is going to be done by sk_mem_charge.

In the transmit zerocopy path, there is sk_mem_charge but there was
no call to sk_wmem_schedule. This change adds that call.

Without this call to sk_wmem_schedule, sk_forward_alloc can go
negetive which is a bug because sk_forward_alloc is a per-socket
space that has been forward charged so this can't be negative.

Fixes: f214f915e7db ("tcp: enable MSG_ZEROCOPY")
Signed-off-by: Talal Ahmad <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Wang <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index d5ab5f243640..8cb44040ec68 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1375,6 +1375,9 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 			}
 			pfrag->offset += copy;
 		} else {
+			if (!sk_wmem_schedule(sk, copy))
+				goto wait_for_space;
+
 			err = skb_zerocopy_iter_stream(sk, skb, msg, copy, uarg);
 			if (err == -EMSGSIZE || err == -EEXIST) {
 				tcp_mark_push(tp, skb);
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