When errors are enqueued to the error queue via sock_queue_err_skb() function, it is possible that the waiting application is not notified.
Calling 'sk->sk_data_ready()' would not notify applications that selected only POLLERR events in poll() (for example). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Randy E. Witt <randy.e.w...@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.go...@intel.com> --- net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 715c13495ba6..6def3534f509 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -4181,7 +4181,7 @@ int sock_queue_err_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_error_queue, skb); if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) - sk->sk_data_ready(sk); + sk->sk_error_report(sk); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_queue_err_skb); -- 2.16.2