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    tcp: clear pfmemalloc on outgoing skb · 38ab52e8
    Eric Dumazet authored
    Josef Bacik diagnosed following problem :
    
       I was seeing random disconnects while testing NBD over loopback.
       This turned out to be because NBD sets pfmemalloc on it's socket,
       however the receiving side is a user space application so does not
       have pfmemalloc set on its socket. This means that
       sk_filter_trim_cap will simply drop this packet, under the
       assumption that the other side will simply retransmit. Well we do
       retransmit, and then the packet is just dropped again for the same
       reason.
    
    It seems the better way to address this problem is to clear pfmemalloc
    in the TCP transmit path. pfmemalloc strict control really makes sense
    on the receive path.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    38ab52e8
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