diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 77b485d60b9d..61082065b26a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -935,6 +935,22 @@ static int tcp_send_mss(struct sock *sk, int *size_goal, int flags)
 	return mss_now;
 }
 
+/* In some cases, both sendpage() and 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.
+ */
+static void tcp_remove_empty_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (skb && !skb->len) {
+		tcp_unlink_write_queue(skb, sk);
+		if (tcp_write_queue_empty(sk))
+			tcp_chrono_stop(sk, TCP_CHRONO_BUSY);
+		sk_wmem_free_skb(sk, skb);
+	}
+}
+
 ssize_t do_tcp_sendpages(struct sock *sk, struct page *page, int offset,
 			 size_t size, int flags)
 {
@@ -1064,6 +1080,7 @@ out:
 	return copied;
 
 do_error:
+	tcp_remove_empty_skb(sk, tcp_write_queue_tail(sk));
 	if (copied)
 		goto out;
 out_err:
@@ -1388,18 +1405,11 @@ out_nopush:
 	sock_zerocopy_put(uarg);
 	return copied + copied_syn;
 
-do_fault:
-	if (!skb->len) {
-		tcp_unlink_write_queue(skb, sk);
-		/* It is the one place in all of TCP, except connection
-		 * reset, where we can be unlinking the send_head.
-		 */
-		if (tcp_write_queue_empty(sk))
-			tcp_chrono_stop(sk, TCP_CHRONO_BUSY);
-		sk_wmem_free_skb(sk, skb);
-	}
-
 do_error:
+	skb = tcp_write_queue_tail(sk);
+do_fault:
+	tcp_remove_empty_skb(sk, skb);
+
 	if (copied + copied_syn)
 		goto out;
 out_err: