This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: fix SO_RCVLOWAT related hangs under mem pressure to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tcp-fix-so_rcvlowat-related-hangs-under-mem-pressure.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b063688a93197d06e0f2b21574d521eda8cc534b Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 12 15:22:13 2021 -0800 tcp: fix SO_RCVLOWAT related hangs under mem pressure [ Upstream commit f969dc5a885736842c3511ecdea240fbb02d25d9 ] While commit 24adbc1676af ("tcp: fix SO_RCVLOWAT hangs with fat skbs") fixed an issue vs too small sk_rcvbuf for given sk_rcvlowat constraint, it missed to address issue caused by memory pressure. 1) If we are under memory pressure and socket receive queue is empty. First incoming packet is allowed to be queued, after commit 76dfa6082032 ("tcp: allow one skb to be received per socket under memory pressure") But we do not send EPOLLIN yet, in case tcp_data_ready() sees sk_rcvlowat is bigger than skb length. 2) Then, when next packet comes, it is dropped, and we directly call sk->sk_data_ready(). 3) If application is using poll(), tcp_poll() will then use tcp_stream_is_readable() and decide the socket receive queue is not yet filled, so nothing will happen. Even when sender retransmits packets, phases 2) & 3) repeat and flow is effectively frozen, until memory pressure is off. Fix is to consider tcp_under_memory_pressure() to take care of global memory pressure or memcg pressure. Fixes: 24adbc1676af ("tcp: fix SO_RCVLOWAT hangs with fat skbs") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Arjun Roy <arjunroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index afbe1d3991f21..4fe3ab47b4803 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -1380,8 +1380,13 @@ static inline int tcp_full_space(const struct sock *sk) */ static inline bool tcp_rmem_pressure(const struct sock *sk) { - int rcvbuf = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_rcvbuf); - int threshold = rcvbuf - (rcvbuf >> 3); + int rcvbuf, threshold; + + if (tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk)) + return true; + + rcvbuf = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_rcvbuf); + threshold = rcvbuf - (rcvbuf >> 3); return atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > threshold; }