FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dlm: fix send buffer backpressure handling" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dlm: fix send buffer backpressure handling" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[Sasha Levin]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x e234d7625598b2eaded84fa99f53c8062650828f
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107060227-failed-5.15-e234d7625598@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Thanks,
Sasha

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e234d7625598b2eaded84fa99f53c8062650828f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:17:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] dlm: fix send buffer backpressure handling

lowcomms.c tests and clears SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE in con->sock->flags,
but this bit has not been stored there for ten years.

Commit 9cd3e072b0be ("net: rename SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE and
SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA") mechanically renamed the two dlm users, then
commit ceb5d58b2170 ("net: fix sock_wake_async() rcu protection") moved
the bit from socket->flags to the RCU protected socket_wq->flags, where
it is reachable only through sk_set_bit() and sk_clear_bit(), and is
only maintained for sockets having SOCK_FASYNC set.  dlm uses kernel
sockets, which never have SOCK_FASYNC set, and never sets the bit
itself, so the test in send_to_sock() has been false ever since.

The consequence is that when sock_sendmsg() returns -EAGAIN because the
socket send buffer is full, dlm no longer sets CF_APP_LIMITED, does not
increment sk_write_pending, and does not return DLM_IO_END to wait for
lowcomms_write_space().  It returns DLM_IO_RESCHED instead, and
process_send_sockets() immediately requeues the send work.  A connection
to a peer that is slow to drain thus keeps cycling through
sock_sendmsg() and -EAGAIN, burning CPU, instead of sleeping until TCP
reports that space is available again.

Test SOCK_NOSPACE instead.  This is the bit that lives in socket->flags,
that TCP sets whenever sendmsg() returns -EAGAIN for lack of send buffer
space (tcp_sendmsg_locked() and sk_stream_wait_memory()), and that
lowcomms_write_space() already clears.  This restores the semantics dlm
had before the bit moved.

Also remove the clear_bit() of SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE from
lowcomms_write_space(), for the same reason.

SCTP connections are deliberately left as they are.  SCTP does not set
SOCK_NOSPACE, and it never calls sk->sk_write_space(): sctp_wfree() ends
up in sctp_wake_up_waiters(), which calls sctp_write_space() directly.
lowcomms_write_space() is thus never invoked for an SCTP connection, and
the test added here stays false, so send_to_sock() keeps returning
DLM_IO_RESCHED as it does today.  This is the only safe behavior, as
returning DLM_IO_END would wait for a callback that never comes.

Fixes: ceb5d58b2170 ("net: fix sock_wake_async() rcu protection")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260929071743.23624-2-edumazet@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
 fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
index 2aff1c7c17de4..abe9ae4c643fa 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
@@ -522,10 +522,8 @@ static void lowcomms_write_space(struct sock *sk)
 	clear_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags);
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&con->writequeue_lock);
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(CF_APP_LIMITED, &con->flags)) {
+	if (test_and_clear_bit(CF_APP_LIMITED, &con->flags))
 		con->sock->sk->sk_write_pending--;
-		clear_bit(SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags);
-	}
 
 	lowcomms_queue_swork(con);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&con->writequeue_lock);
@@ -1391,7 +1389,7 @@ static int send_to_sock(struct connection *con)
 	if (ret == -EAGAIN || ret == 0) {
 		lock_sock(con->sock->sk);
 		spin_lock_bh(&con->writequeue_lock);
-		if (test_bit(SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags) &&
+		if (test_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags) &&
 		    !test_and_set_bit(CF_APP_LIMITED, &con->flags)) {
 			/* Notify TCP that we're limited by the
 			 * application window size.
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH 5.15.y] dlm: fix send buffer backpressure handling

[Sasha Levin]

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit e234d7625598b2eaded84fa99f53c8062650828f ]

lowcomms.c tests and clears SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE in con->sock->flags,
but this bit has not been stored there for ten years.

Commit 9cd3e072b0be ("net: rename SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE and
SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA") mechanically renamed the two dlm users, then
commit ceb5d58b2170 ("net: fix sock_wake_async() rcu protection") moved
the bit from socket->flags to the RCU protected socket_wq->flags, where
it is reachable only through sk_set_bit() and sk_clear_bit(), and is
only maintained for sockets having SOCK_FASYNC set.  dlm uses kernel
sockets, which never have SOCK_FASYNC set, and never sets the bit
itself, so the test in send_to_sock() has been false ever since.

The consequence is that when sock_sendmsg() returns -EAGAIN because the
socket send buffer is full, dlm no longer sets CF_APP_LIMITED, does not
increment sk_write_pending, and does not return DLM_IO_END to wait for
lowcomms_write_space().  It returns DLM_IO_RESCHED instead, and
process_send_sockets() immediately requeues the send work.  A connection
to a peer that is slow to drain thus keeps cycling through
sock_sendmsg() and -EAGAIN, burning CPU, instead of sleeping until TCP
reports that space is available again.

Test SOCK_NOSPACE instead.  This is the bit that lives in socket->flags,
that TCP sets whenever sendmsg() returns -EAGAIN for lack of send buffer
space (tcp_sendmsg_locked() and sk_stream_wait_memory()), and that
lowcomms_write_space() already clears.  This restores the semantics dlm
had before the bit moved.

Also remove the clear_bit() of SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE from
lowcomms_write_space(), for the same reason.

SCTP connections are deliberately left as they are.  SCTP does not set
SOCK_NOSPACE, and it never calls sk->sk_write_space(): sctp_wfree() ends
up in sctp_wake_up_waiters(), which calls sctp_write_space() directly.
lowcomms_write_space() is thus never invoked for an SCTP connection, and
the test added here stays false, so send_to_sock() keeps returning
DLM_IO_RESCHED as it does today.  This is the only safe behavior, as
returning DLM_IO_END would wait for a callback that never comes.

Fixes: ceb5d58b2170 ("net: fix sock_wake_async() rcu protection")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260929071743.23624-2-edumazet@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ sashal: adjusted context around the existing ret == -EAGAIN guard in send_to_sock() ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
index 5b53425554077..80aae70431fea 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
@@ -518,10 +518,8 @@ static void lowcomms_write_space(struct sock *sk)
 
 	clear_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags);
 
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(CF_APP_LIMITED, &con->flags)) {
+	if (test_and_clear_bit(CF_APP_LIMITED, &con->flags))
 		con->sock->sk->sk_write_pending--;
-		clear_bit(SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags);
-	}
 
 	queue_work(send_workqueue, &con->swork);
 out:
@@ -1417,7 +1415,7 @@ static void send_to_sock(struct connection *con)
 				      msg_flags);
 		if (ret == -EAGAIN || ret == 0) {
 			if (ret == -EAGAIN &&
-			    test_bit(SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags) &&
+			    test_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &con->sock->flags) &&
 			    !test_and_set_bit(CF_APP_LIMITED, &con->flags)) {
 				/* Notify TCP that we're limited by the
 				 * application window size.
-- 
2.53.0