3.6.11.1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 74b2a7b4ea60d5c1c94ac01ad001e16ac40132f3 ] commit 02275a2ee7c0 (tcp: don't abort splice() after small transfers) added a regression. [ 83.843570] INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU [ 83.844575] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 6} (detected by 0, t=21002 jiffies, g=4457, c=4456, q=13132) [ 83.844582] Task dump for CPU 6: [ 83.844584] netperf R running task 0 8966 8952 0x0000000c [ 83.844587] 0000000000000000 0000000000000006 0000000000006c6c 0000000000000000 [ 83.844589] 000000000000006c 0000000000000096 ffffffff819ce2bc ffffffffffffff10 [ 83.844592] ffffffff81088679 0000000000000010 0000000000000246 ffff880c4b9ddcd8 [ 83.844594] Call Trace: [ 83.844596] [<ffffffff81088679>] ? vprintk_emit+0x1c9/0x4c0 [ 83.844601] [<ffffffff815ad449>] ? schedule+0x29/0x70 [ 83.844606] [<ffffffff81537bd2>] ? tcp_splice_data_recv+0x42/0x50 [ 83.844610] [<ffffffff8153beaa>] ? tcp_read_sock+0xda/0x260 [ 83.844613] [<ffffffff81537b90>] ? tcp_prequeue_process+0xb0/0xb0 [ 83.844615] [<ffffffff8153c0f0>] ? tcp_splice_read+0xc0/0x250 [ 83.844618] [<ffffffff814dc0c2>] ? sock_splice_read+0x22/0x30 [ 83.844622] [<ffffffff811b820b>] ? do_splice_to+0x7b/0xa0 [ 83.844627] [<ffffffff811ba4bc>] ? sys_splice+0x59c/0x5d0 [ 83.844630] [<ffffffff8119745b>] ? putname+0x2b/0x40 [ 83.844633] [<ffffffff8118bcb4>] ? do_sys_open+0x174/0x1e0 [ 83.844636] [<ffffffff815b6202>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b if recv_actor() returns 0, we should stop immediately, because looping wont give a chance to drain the pipe. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 5fe7a59..8720b83 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ int tcp_read_sock(struct sock *sk, read_descriptor_t *desc, break; } used = recv_actor(desc, skb, offset, len); - if (used < 0) { + if (used <= 0) { if (!copied) copied = used; break; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html