This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tipc: fix hanging poll() for stream sockets to the 4.14-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: tipc-fix-hanging-poll-for-stream-sockets.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Dec 31 11:12:48 CET 2017 From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:03:06 +0100 Subject: tipc: fix hanging poll() for stream sockets From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 517d7c79bdb39864e617960504bdc1aa560c75c6 ] In commit 42b531de17d2f6 ("tipc: Fix missing connection request handling"), we replaced unconditional wakeup() with condtional wakeup for clients with flags POLLIN | POLLRDNORM | POLLRDBAND. This breaks the applications which do a connect followed by poll with POLLOUT flag. These applications are not woken when the connection is ESTABLISHED and hence sleep forever. In this commit, we fix it by including the POLLOUT event for sockets in TIPC_CONNECTING state. Fixes: 42b531de17d2f6 ("tipc: Fix missing connection request handling") Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/socket.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/tipc/socket.c +++ b/net/tipc/socket.c @@ -709,11 +709,11 @@ static unsigned int tipc_poll(struct fil switch (sk->sk_state) { case TIPC_ESTABLISHED: + case TIPC_CONNECTING: if (!tsk->cong_link_cnt && !tsk_conn_cong(tsk)) mask |= POLLOUT; /* fall thru' */ case TIPC_LISTEN: - case TIPC_CONNECTING: if (!skb_queue_empty(&sk->sk_receive_queue)) mask |= (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM); break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/tipc-fix-hanging-poll-for-stream-sockets.patch