Hi, Current implementation of MSG_ZEROCOPY for TCP requires the socket to be ESTABLISHED: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0-rc1/source/net/ipv4/tcp.c#L1188
if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) { err = -EINVAL; goto out_err; } In TCP it's totally fine to have half-open sockets, for example: shutdown(5, SHUT_RD) Moves the socket from ESTABLISHED to CLOSE_WAIT. In such TCP state it's possible to continue sending data. This is not supported by MSG_ZEROCOPY, which will fail with EINVAL in such case. I think it's a bug. Marek