From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:19:42 +0200 > And the above loop in tcp_output() is a plain memory deadlock, you > should not loop on allocations like that. If the allocation fails; > propagate the error. There is nothing to "propagate" it to. We have no "event" that will trigger so that we have a second chance to send the FIN out, it really must go out before we progress any further at this stage. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html