sctp: Don't charge for data in sndbuf again when transmitting packet
authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Mon, 3 Sep 2012 04:27:42 +0000 (04:27 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:28:06 +0000 (05:28 +0900)
commit126268e1d7790725c2bb0e394652c70ced6ee2ea
treef694776b65593776435963733882bea0706288d1
parent75cb41f8ea4e0fc3b6292eb8d7fcddfeafb4f718
sctp: Don't charge for data in sndbuf again when transmitting packet

[ Upstream commit 4c3a5bdae293f75cdf729c6c00124e8489af2276 ]

SCTP charges wmem_alloc via sctp_set_owner_w() in sctp_sendmsg() and via
skb_set_owner_w() in sctp_packet_transmit(). If a sender runs out of
sndbuf it will sleep in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf() and expects to be waken up
by __sctp_write_space().

Buffer space charged via sctp_set_owner_w() is released in sctp_wfree()
which calls __sctp_write_space() directly.

Buffer space charged via skb_set_owner_w() is released via sock_wfree()
which calls sk->sk_write_space() _if_ SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE is not set.
sctp_endpoint_init() sets SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE on all sockets.

Therefore if sctp_packet_transmit() manages to queue up more than sndbuf
bytes, sctp_wait_for_sndbuf() will never be woken up again unless it is
interrupted by a signal.

This could be fixed by clearing the SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE flag but ...

Charging for the data twice does not make sense in the first place, it
leads to overcharging sndbuf by a factor 2. Therefore this patch only
charges a single byte in wmem_alloc when transmitting an SCTP packet to
ensure that the socket stays alive until the packet has been released.

This means that control chunks are no longer accounted for in wmem_alloc
which I believe is not a problem as skb->truesize will typically lead
to overcharging anyway and thus compensates for any control overhead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/sctp/output.c