This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: fix tcp fin memory accounting

to the 3.10-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-tcp-fin-memory-accounting.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Mar 24 11:01:55 CET 2015
From: Josh Hunt <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:19:30 -0400
Subject: tcp: fix tcp fin memory accounting

From: Josh Hunt <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit d22e1537181188e5dc8cbc51451832625035bdc2 ]

tcp_send_fin() does not account for the memory it allocates properly, so
sk_forward_alloc can be negative in cases where we've sent a FIN:

ss example output (ss -amn | grep -B1 f4294):
tcp    FIN-WAIT-1 0      1            192.168.0.1:45520         192.0.2.1:8080
        skmem:(r0,rb87380,t0,tb87380,f4294966016,w1280,o0,bl0)
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2593,15 +2593,11 @@ void tcp_send_fin(struct sock *sk)
        } else {
                /* Socket is locked, keep trying until memory is available. */
                for (;;) {
-                       skb = alloc_skb_fclone(MAX_TCP_HEADER,
-                                              sk->sk_allocation);
+                       skb = sk_stream_alloc_skb(sk, 0, sk->sk_allocation);
                        if (skb)
                                break;
                        yield();
                }
-
-               /* Reserve space for headers and prepare control bits. */
-               skb_reserve(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER);
                /* FIN eats a sequence byte, write_seq advanced by 
tcp_queue_skb(). */
                tcp_init_nondata_skb(skb, tp->write_seq,
                                     TCPHDR_ACK | TCPHDR_FIN);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/tcp-fix-tcp-fin-memory-accounting.patch
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