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Ricard Rosson e6c245686c net/tcp: don't accept a reset connection as connected (fixes send hang)
tcp_start_monitor() is called from accept() (net/inet/inet_sockif.c) for
each newly accepted connection.  When the peer had already closed the
connection before accept() ran, the monitor takes an early-return path so
that any read-ahead data buffered on the connection can still be drained;
it returns OK in that case.  accept() (net/socket/accept.c) then marks the
new socket _SF_CONNECTED unconditionally.

If the peer aborts the connection with an RST immediately after the
three-way handshake completes (for example any close with SO_LINGER
{1, 0}), the connection is moved to TCP_CLOSED with no buffered data, yet
accept() still hands back a socket that reports _SS_ISCONNECTED.  A
subsequent blocking send() on that socket passes the connected check,
registers a send callback and waits on its semaphore forever: the only
TCP_ABORT event was delivered before the callback existed, and no further
ACK, POLL or disconnect event is generated for a closed connection, so the
waiter is never woken.

Any server that writes before reading can hit this; the telnet daemon
(netutils/telnetd) is one example, where the accepted session task blocks
in send() and never completes.

Only return OK from the already-closed path when there is actually
read-ahead data to drain.  Otherwise the connection is dead, so fall
through to the -ENOTCONN return: accept() then fails cleanly instead of
handing back a socket wedged on a connection that will never make progress.
The graceful-close-with-pending-data case (the reason the OK path exists)
is preserved by the conn->readahead check.

Signed-off-by: Ricard Rosson <ricard@groundbits.com>
Assisted-by: Claude (Anthropic Claude Code)
2026-08-04 00:35:39 +08:00
.github !arch/stm32: move stm32l1 and finalize the directory split 2026-07-03 10:27:27 +08:00
arch arch/arm: carry CONTROL over to the fork child on Cortex-M 2026-08-04 00:35:32 +08:00
audio drivers/efuse/efuse: Drivers Registered With World Write Permissions(Part 1) 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
binfmt fs/binfmt: Enforce POSIX execute permissions prior to binary load 2026-06-17 17:11:07 +08:00
boards boards/mps2-an521: Correct the swapped UART0 TX and RX interrupts. 2026-08-03 23:17:11 +08:00
cmake cmake: Sanitize NAME for _main symbol generation 2026-08-03 20:59:22 +08:00
crypto drivers/efuse/efuse: Drivers Registered With World Write Permissions(Part 1) 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
Documentation docs/raspberrypi-4b: Documentation about the SD card updated 2026-08-03 20:57:47 +08:00
drivers drivers/video: zero message on MIPI DSI driver 2026-08-03 23:16:13 +08:00
dummy build: add initial cmake build system 2023-07-08 13:50:48 +08:00
fs drivers/eeprom: I2C EEPROM Read/Write Kernel Operations Cause a Device Crash 2026-08-03 21:00:39 +08:00
graphics drivers/: Multiple Drivers Are Registered With World Writable - Part 2 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
include lib/math32: Avoid __uint128_t casts for LDC ImportC 2026-08-03 22:20:43 +08:00
libs libs/libbuiltin/compiler-rt: skip unsupported Arm VFP builtins asm 2026-08-03 23:18:05 +08:00
mm mm/gran: reject pools with too many granules 2026-07-03 10:32:15 +08:00
net net/tcp: don't accept a reset connection as connected (fixes send hang) 2026-08-04 00:35:39 +08:00
openamp openamp: fix CMake dcache option 2026-05-10 15:03:24 +02:00
pass1 Makefile: Remove make depend files by make distclean 2026-02-16 16:27:57 +01:00
sched sched/sched_critmonitor: remove duplicate preemption start block 2026-08-04 00:35:18 +08:00
syscall syscall: fcntl param3 type to uintptr_t 2026-04-27 12:01:55 -03:00
tools tools/Zig.defs: Fix Zig builds on sim:x86_64 2026-08-03 21:02:20 +08:00
video video: fix EDID standard timing decode 2026-08-03 20:59:41 +08:00
wireless drivers/: Multiple Drivers Are Registered With World Writable - Part 2 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
.asf.yaml github: master branch protection tune. 2025-05-07 18:37:13 -05:00
.codespell-ignore-lines !boards: Remove NSH_ARCHINIT and board_app_initialize 2026-05-02 18:36:46 +08:00
.codespellrc arch/sim: replace macOS C++ constructor runtime hack with post-link patch 2026-05-19 07:08:55 -03:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: fix character encoding property specification 2025-11-28 19:12:13 +08:00
.gitignore git: Specify multiple build directories in .gitignore. 2026-05-20 03:06:58 +08:00
.gitmessage docs/contributing: Add a commit message template 2025-06-03 17:33:24 +08:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml pre-commit: enable codespell checks 2025-05-05 12:34:39 +08:00
.yamllint feat: add a GitHub action to lint the YAML files 2020-12-15 09:52:04 -06:00
AUTHORS AUTHORS: add Eren Terzioglu 2026-05-20 15:17:00 +08:00
CMakeLists.txt cmake: Do not link an executable to detect the compiler. 2026-08-03 22:21:10 +08:00
CONTRIBUTING.md docs: Fix typos, formatting, and numbering in README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md. 2026-03-23 12:05:24 +01:00
INVIOLABLES.md INVIOLABLES.md: Fix a simple alignment and change occurrences of Nuttx 2020-09-03 01:33:05 +08:00
Kconfig sched/misc/assert: Add CONFIG_SCHED_DUMP_TASKS and CONFIG_SCHED_DUMP_STACK 2026-07-04 13:29:32 -04:00
LICENSE !arch/stm32: move stm32l1 and finalize the directory split 2026-07-03 10:27:27 +08:00
Makefile !boards: enforce secure ROMFS passwd and TEA key setup 2026-07-06 12:04:07 -03:00
NOTICE Remove the double blank line from source files 2022-02-20 20:10:14 +01:00
README.md docs: Fix typos, formatting, and numbering in README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md. 2026-03-23 12:05:24 +01:00
ReleaseNotes Documentation: move ReleaseNotes 2023-09-26 20:41:00 +08:00

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