kernel/linux.git/net/mptcp, branch v7.0.10

mptcp: better mptcp-level RTT estimator

2026-05-23T11:08:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit d2000361e4ddf5047d660a902a3b0ed7520be1e5 ] 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: return early if no retrans

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit 62a9b19dce77e72426f049fb99b9d1d032b9a8ea upstream. No need to iterate over all subflows if there is no retransmission needed. Exit early in this case then. Fixes: 30549eebc4d8 ("mptcp: make ADD_ADDR retransmission timeout adaptive") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-8-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: resched blocked ADD_ADDR quicker

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit 3cf12492891c4b5ff54dda404a2de4ec54c9e1b5 upstream. When an ADD_ADDR needs to be retransmitted and another one has already been prepared -- e.g. multiple ADD_ADDRs have been sent in a row and need to be retransmitted later -- this additional retransmission will need to wait. In this case, the timer was reset to TCP_RTO_MAX / 8, which is ~15 seconds. This delay is unnecessary long: it should just be rescheduled at the next opportunity, e.g. after the retransmission timeout. Without this modification, some issues can be seen from time to time in the selftests when multiple ADD_ADDRs are sent, and the host takes time to process them, e.g. the "signal addresses, ADD_ADDR timeout" MPTCP Join selftest, especially with a debug kernel config. Note that on older kernels, 'timeout' is not available. It should be enough to replace it by one second (HZ). Fixes: 00cfd77b9063 ("mptcp: retransmit ADD_ADDR when timeout") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-6-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: free sk if last

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit b7b9a461569734d33d3259d58d2507adfac107ed upstream. When an ADD_ADDR is retransmitted, the sk is held in sk_reset_timer(), and released at the end. If at that moment, it was the last reference being held, the sk would not be freed. sock_put() should then be called instead of __sock_put(). But that's not enough: if it is the last reference, sock_put() will call sk_free(), which will end up calling sk_stop_timer_sync() on the same timer, and waiting indefinitely to finish. So it is needed to mark that the timer is done at the end of the timer handler when it has not been rescheduled, not to call sk_stop_timer_sync() on "itself". Fixes: 00cfd77b9063 ("mptcp: retransmit ADD_ADDR when timeout") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-5-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: always decrease sk refcount

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit 9634cb35af17019baec21ca648516ce376fa10e6 upstream. When an ADD_ADDR is retransmitted, the sk is held in sk_reset_timer(). It should then be released in all cases at the end. Some (unlikely) checks were returning directly instead of calling sock_put() to decrease the refcount. Jump to a new 'exit' label to call __sock_put() (which will become sock_put() in the next commit) to fix this potential leak. While at it, drop the '!msk' check which cannot happen because it is never reset, and explicitly mark the remaining one as "unlikely". Fixes: 00cfd77b9063 ("mptcp: retransmit ADD_ADDR when timeout") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-4-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: fix potential data-race

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit 5cd6e0ad79d2615264f63929f8b457ad97ae550d upstream. This mptcp_pm_add_timer() helper is executed as a timer callback in softirq context. To avoid any data races, the socket lock needs to be held with bh_lock_sock(). If the socket is in use, retry again soon after, similar to what is done with the keepalive timer. Fixes: 00cfd77b9063 ("mptcp: retransmit ADD_ADDR when timeout") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-3-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: allow ID 0

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit 03f324f3f1f7619a47b9c91282cb12775ab0a2f1 upstream. ADD_ADDR can be sent for the ID 0, which corresponds to the local address and port linked to the initial subflow. Indeed, this address could be removed, and re-added later on, e.g. what is done in the "delete re-add signal" MPTCP Join selftests. So no reason to ignore it. Fixes: 00cfd77b9063 ("mptcp: retransmit ADD_ADDR when timeout") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-2-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: kernel: correctly retransmit ADD_ADDR ID 0

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit b12014d2d36eaed4e4bec5f1ac7e91110eeb100d upstream. When adding the ADD_ADDR to the list, the address including the IP, port and ID are copied. On the other hand, when the endpoint corresponds to the one from the initial subflow, the ID is set to 0, as specified by the MPTCP protocol. The issue is that the ID was reset after having copied the ID in the ADD_ADDR entry. So the retransmission was done, but using a different ID than the initial one. Fixes: 8b8ed1b429f8 ("mptcp: pm: reuse ID 0 after delete and re-add") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-1-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: kernel: reset fullmesh counter after flush

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit 1774d3cf3cf17baaf30c095606cda496268283b3 upstream. This variable counts how many MPTCP endpoints have a 'fullmesh' flag set. After having flushed all MPTCP endpoints, it is then needed to reset this counter. Without this reset, this counter exposed to the userspace is wrong, but also non-fullmesh endpoints added after the flush will not be taken into account to create subflows in reaction to ADD_ADDRs. Fixes: f88191c7f361 ("mptcp: pm: in-kernel: record fullmesh endp nb") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Sashiko Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260422-mptcp-inc-limits-v6-0-903181771530%40kernel.org?part=15 Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-7-1-rc2-v1-4-7432b7f279fa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptcp: pm: prio: skip closed subflows

2026-05-14T13:31:17+00:00

commit 166b78344031bf7ac9f55cb5282776cfd85f220e upstream. When sending an MP_PRIO, closed subflows need to be skipped. This fixes the case where the initial subflow got closed, re-opened later, then an MP_PRIO is needed for the same local address. Note that explicit MP_PRIO cannot be sent during the 3WHS, so it is fine to use __mptcp_subflow_active(). Fixes: 067065422fcd ("mptcp: add the outgoing MP_PRIO support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: b29fcfb54cd7 ("mptcp: full disconnect implementation") Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505-net-mptcp-pm-fixes-7-1-rc3-v1-9-fca8091060a4@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman