kernel/linux.git/net/mptcp/protocol.c, branch v7.1-rc5

mptcp: reset rcv wnd on disconnect

2026-05-19T13:36:35+00:00

If the MPTCP socket fallback to TCP before the MP handshake completion, the IASN remain 0, and the rcv_wnd_sent field is not explicitly initialized, just incremented over time with the data transfer. At disconnect time such value is not cleared. If the next connection falls back to TCP before the MP handshake completion, the data transfer will keep incrementing the receive window end sequence starting from the last value used in the previous connection: the announced window will be unrelated from the actual receiver buffer size and likely too big. Address the issue zeroing the field at disconnect time. Fixes: b29fcfb54cd7 ("mptcp: full disconnect implementation") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-7-1-rc4-v2-4-701e96419f2f@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

mptcp: do not drop partial packets

2026-05-19T13:36:35+00:00

When a packet arrives with map_seq < ack_seq < end_seq, the beginning of the packet has already been acknowledged but the end contains new data. Currently the entire packet is dropped as "old data," forcing the sender to retransmit. Instead, skip the already-acked bytes by adjusting the skb offset and enqueue only the new portion. Update bytes_received and ack_seq to reflect the new data consumed. A previous attempt at this fix has been sent by Paolo Abeni [1], but had issues [2]: it also added a zero-window check and changed rcv_wnd_sent initialization, which caused test regressions. This version addresses only the partial packet handling without modifying receive window accounting. Fixes: ab174ad8ef76 ("mptcp: move ooo skbs into msk out of order queue.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/c9b426a4e163aa3c4fe8b80c79f1a610f47ae7d8.1763075056.git.pabeni@redhat.com [1] Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/600 [2] Signed-off-by: Shardul Bankar [pabeni@redhat.com: update map] Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-7-1-rc4-v2-1-701e96419f2f@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

mptcp: fastclose msk when linger time is 0

2026-04-29T01:36:27+00:00

The SO_LINGER socket option has been supported for a while with MPTCP sockets [1], but it didn't cause the equivalent of a TCP reset as expected when enabled and its time was set to 0. This was causing some behavioural differences with TCP where some connections were not promptly stopped as expected. To fix that, an extra condition is checked at close() time before sending an MP_FASTCLOSE, the MPTCP equivalent of a TCP reset. Note that backporting up to [1] will be difficult as more changes are needed to be able to send MP_FASTCLOSE. It seems better to stop at [2], which was supposed to already imitate TCP. Validated with MPTCP packetdrill tests [3]. Fixes: 268b12387460 ("mptcp: setsockopt: support SO_LINGER") [1] Fixes: d21f83485518 ("mptcp: use fastclose on more edge scenarios") [2] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Lance Tuller Closes: https://github.com/lance0/xfr/pull/67 Link: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/packetdrill/pull/196 [3] Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-7-1-rc2-v1-3-7432b7f279fa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

mptcp: sync the msk->sndbuf at accept() time

2026-04-23T11:20:17+00:00

On passive MPTCP connections, the msk sndbuf is not updated correctly. The root cause is an order issue in the accept path: - tcp_check_req() -> subflow_syn_recv_sock() -> mptcp_sk_clone_init() calls __mptcp_propagate_sndbuf() to copy the ssk sndbuf into msk - Later, tcp_child_process() -> tcp_init_transfer() -> tcp_sndbuf_expand() grows the ssk sndbuf. So __mptcp_propagate_sndbuf() runs before the ssk sndbuf has been expanded and the msk ends up with a much smaller sndbuf than the subflow: MPTCP: msk->sndbuf:20480, msk->first->sndbuf:2626560 Fix this by moving the __mptcp_propagate_sndbuf() call from mptcp_sk_clone_init() -- the ssk sndbuf is not yet finalized there -- to __mptcp_propagate_sndbuf() at accept() time, when the ssk sndbuf has been fully expanded by tcp_sndbuf_expand(). Fixes: 8005184fd1ca ("mptcp: refactor sndbuf auto-tuning") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/602 Signed-off-by: Gang Yan Acked-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420-net-mptcp-sync-sndbuf-accept-v1-1-e3523e3aeb44@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

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

2026-04-09T20:20:59+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.0-rc8). Conflicts: net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c c3812651b522f ("seg6: separate dst_cache for input and output paths in seg6 lwtunnel") 78723a62b969a ("seg6: add per-route tunnel source address") https://lore.kernel.org/adZhwtOYfo-0ImSa@sirena.org.uk net/ipv4/icmp.c fde29fd934932 ("ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe()") d98adfbdd5c01 ("ipv4: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls") https://lore.kernel.org/adO3dccqnr6j-BL9@sirena.org.uk Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/chain_mode.c 51f4e090b9f8 ("net: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode") 6b4286e05508 ("net: stmmac: rename STMMAC_GET_ENTRY() -> STMMAC_NEXT_ENTRY()") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

mptcp: add receive queue awareness in tcp_rcv_space_adjust()

2026-04-09T02:32:01+00:00

This is the MPTCP counter-part of commit ea33537d8292 ("tcp: add receive queue awareness in tcp_rcv_space_adjust()"). Prior to this commit: ESTAB 33165568 0 192.168.255.2:5201 192.168.255.1:53380 \ skmem:(r33076416,rb33554432,t0,tb91136,f448,w0,o0,bl0,d0) After: ESTAB 3279168 0 192.168.255.2:5201 192.168.255.1]:53042 \ skmem:(r3190912,rb3719956,t0,tb91136,f1536,w0,o0,bl0,d0) Same throughput. Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407-net-next-mptcp-reduce-rbuf-v2-2-0d1d135bf6f6@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

mptcp: better mptcp-level RTT estimator

2026-04-09T02:32:00+00:00

The current MPTCP-level RTT estimator has several issues. On high speed links, the MPTCP-level receive buffer auto-tuning happens with a frequency well above the TCP-level's one. That in turn can cause excessive/unneeded receive buffer increase. On such links, the initial rtt_us value is considerably higher than the actual delay, and the current mptcp_rcv_space_adjust() updates msk->rcvq_space.rtt_us with a period equal to the such field previous value. If the initial rtt_us is 40ms, its first update will happen after 40ms, even if the subflows see actual RTT orders of magnitude lower. Additionally: - setting the msk RTT to the maximum among all the subflows RTTs makes DRS constantly overshooting the rcvbuf size when a subflow has considerable higher latency than the other(s). - during unidirectional bulk transfers with multiple active subflows, the TCP-level RTT estimator occasionally sees considerably higher value than the real link delay, i.e. when the packet scheduler reacts to an incoming ACK on given subflow pushing data on a different subflow. - currently inactive but still open subflows (i.e. switched to backup mode) are always considered when computing the msk-level RTT. Address the all the issues above with a more accurate RTT estimation strategy: the MPTCP-level RTT is set to the minimum of all the subflows actually feeding data into the MPTCP receive buffer, using a small sliding window. While at it, also use EWMA to compute the msk-level scaling_ratio, to that MPTCP can avoid traversing the subflow list is mptcp_rcv_space_adjust(). Use some care to avoid updating msk and ssk level fields too often. Fixes: a6b118febbab ("mptcp: add receive buffer auto-tuning") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407-net-next-mptcp-reduce-rbuf-v2-1-0d1d135bf6f6@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

mptcp: fix slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established

2026-04-09T02:30:08+00:00

The ehash table lookups are lockless and rely on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU to guarantee socket memory stability during RCU read-side critical sections. Both tcp_prot and tcpv6_prot have their slab caches created with this flag via proto_register(). However, MPTCP's mptcp_subflow_init() copies tcpv6_prot into tcpv6_prot_override during inet_init() (fs_initcall, level 5), before inet6_init() (module_init/device_initcall, level 6) has called proto_register(&tcpv6_prot). At that point, tcpv6_prot.slab is still NULL, so tcpv6_prot_override.slab remains NULL permanently. This causes MPTCP v6 subflow child sockets to be allocated via kmalloc (falling into kmalloc-4k) instead of the TCPv6 slab cache. The kmalloc-4k cache lacks SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, so when these sockets are freed without SOCK_RCU_FREE (which is cleared for child sockets by design), the memory can be immediately reused. Concurrent ehash lookups under rcu_read_lock can then access freed memory, triggering a slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established. Fix this by splitting the IPv6-specific initialization out of mptcp_subflow_init() into a new mptcp_subflow_v6_init(), called from mptcp_proto_v6_init() before protocol registration. This ensures tcpv6_prot_override.slab correctly inherits the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab cache. Fixes: b19bc2945b40 ("mptcp: implement delegated actions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406031512.189159-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: add recv_should_stop helper

2026-04-07T02:14:27+00:00

Factor out a new helper tcp_recv_should_stop() from tcp_recvmsg_locked() and tcp_splice_read() to check whether to stop receiving. And use this helper in mptcp_recvmsg() and mptcp_splice_read() to reduce redundant code. Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni Acked-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403-net-next-mptcp-msg_eor-misc-v1-3-b0b33bea3fed@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

mptcp: preserve MSG_EOR semantics in sendmsg path

2026-04-07T02:14:26+00:00

Extend MPTCP's sendmsg handling to recognize and honor the MSG_EOR flag, which marks the end of a record for application-level message boundaries. Data fragments tagged with MSG_EOR are explicitly marked in the mptcp_data_frag structure and skb context to prevent unintended coalescing with subsequent data chunks. This ensures the intent of applications using MSG_EOR is preserved across MPTCP subflows, maintaining consistent message segmentation behavior. Signed-off-by: Gang Yan Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403-net-next-mptcp-msg_eor-misc-v1-2-b0b33bea3fed@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski