Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

Conflicts:

net/mac80211/rx.c
  91535613b6 ("wifi: mac80211: don't drop all unprotected public action frames")
  6c02fab724 ("wifi: mac80211: split ieee80211_drop_unencrypted_mgmt() return value")

Adjacent changes:

drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
  61471264c0 ("net: ethernet: apm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void")
  d2ca43f306 ("net: xgene: Fix unused xgene_enet_of_match warning for !CONFIG_OF")

net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
  64c99d2d6a ("vsock/virtio: support to send non-linear skb")
  53b08c4985 ("vsock/virtio: initialize the_virtio_vsock before using VQs")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

net/ipv4/tcp.c

@@ -927,10 +927,11 @@ int tcp_send_mss(struct sock *sk, int *size_goal, int flags)
 	return mss_now;
 }
 
-/* In some cases, both sendmsg() could have added an skb to the write queue,
- * but failed adding payload on it.  We need to remove it to consume less
+/* In some cases, sendmsg() could have added an skb to the write queue,
+ * but failed adding payload on it. We need to remove it to consume less
  * memory, but more importantly be able to generate EPOLLOUT for Edge Trigger
- * epoll() users.
+ * epoll() users. Another reason is that tcp_write_xmit() does not like
+ * finding an empty skb in the write queue.
  */
 void tcp_remove_empty_skb(struct sock *sk)
 {
@@ -1289,6 +1290,7 @@ new_segment:
 
 wait_for_space:
 		set_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &sk->sk_socket->flags);
+		tcp_remove_empty_skb(sk);
 		if (copied)
 			tcp_push(sk, flags & ~MSG_MORE, mss_now,
 				 TCP_NAGLE_PUSH, size_goal);