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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

When a nonblocking send() to a peer fails with a would-block error (the peer has stopped reading and its TCP window is full), CConnman::SocketSendData leaves fCanSendData set. The peer therefore stays in the sendable set, the socket handler keeps polling with a zero timeout, and the net thread busy-loops until the peer starts reading again or times out.

Before the transport refactor (bitcoin#28165, merged here in 63962ec) a failed send cleared the flag; that reset was lost in the merge.

What was done?

Clear fCanSendData whenever the send returns an error, so the next iteration waits for the socket to become writable again. The empty-send path and partial successful sends are unchanged.

How Has This Been Tested?

Reproduced with a functional script that connects a peer which never reads and streams pings at the node: before the change the node's net thread used ~100% of a CPU core (9.86 s of CPU vs 9.88 s for a reference busy loop); with the change it used 0.02-0.03 s over three runs. That script measures CPU time, so it is not added as a CI test. test_dash --run_test=net_tests,sock_tests, p2p_ping.py and p2p_v2_transport.py pass.

Breaking Changes

None.

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Walkthrough

When SocketSendData encounters a non-retryable socket send error, it now clears node.fCanSendData. The existing error logging and setting of node.fDisconnect remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• dashpay/dash#7961: Changes SocketSendData and send-pause handling by recording prolonged pauses and disconnecting peers that remain paused.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 19da3

Would-block sends now wait for socket readiness. Set a PR milestone to clear the failing check.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing a network busy-loop when a peer's send buffer is full.
Description check		The description directly explains the socket error, the fCanSendData fix, the expected behavior, and the reported tests.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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✅ Final review complete — no blockers (commit 19da39c)

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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

At head 19da39c, the one-line fix correctly restores readiness-driven retries after failed sends; no correctness defects were found, and the supplied base drift does not supersede or conflict with it. The remaining non-blocking concern is missing deterministic regression coverage for the corrected flag transition. This was a static review: current CI shows successful builds, lint, and Linux standard, nowallet, multiprocess, and TSAN tests; ASAN tests remain pending.

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Approved: nothing here blocks the merge. The non-blocking findings are optional: fix them forward, in this PR or a follow-up, without waiting for another review round.

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Source: reviewer 1: glm-5.3-flash (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: low by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff adds a single flag reset in CConnman::SocketSendData, a small, contained behavioral fix whose correctness is straightforward to confirm.
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• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
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In `src/net.cpp`:
- [NITPICK] src/net.cpp:1777: Add deterministic coverage for the failed-send readiness reset
  The corrected readiness transition has no automated regression test: neither net_tests nor sock_tests exercises SocketSendData with a would-block result and checks fCanSendData. The CPU-time reproducer need not enter CI to cover this invariant. Extend net_tests using the existing test-only ConnmanTestMsg friend and a Sock mock whose Send returns -1 with the platform's would-block error. Queue transport bytes, initialize fCanSendData to true, invoke SocketSendData under cs_vSend, and assert that readiness becomes false while unsent bytes remain and the peer is not disconnected. This would fail if the reset were lost again, without timing measurements or real socket saturation.

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Approved