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Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index b184f03d7437..57f434a8e41f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -2438,6 +2438,14 @@ static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, unsigned int mss_now, int nonagle, if (tcp_small_queue_check(sk, skb, 0)) break; + /* Argh, we hit an empty skb(), presumably a thread + * is sleeping in sendmsg()/sk_stream_wait_memory(). + * We do not want to send a pure-ack packet and have + * a strange looking rtx queue with empty packet(s). + */ + if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq == TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq) + break; + if (unlikely(tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 1, gfp))) break; |