Overall, we encountered a warning [1] that can be triggered by running the selftest I provided.
sockmap works by replacing sk_data_ready, recvmsg, sendmsg operations and implementing fast socket-level forwarding logic: 1. Users can obtain file descriptors through userspace socket()/accept() interfaces, then call BPF syscall to perform these replacements. 2. Users can also use the bpf_sock_hash_update helper (in sockops programs) to replace handlers when TCP connections enter ESTABLISHED state (BPF_SOCK_OPS_PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB/BPF_SOCK_OPS_ACTIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB)
However, when combined with MPTCP, an issue arises: MPTCP creates subflow sk's and performs TCP handshakes, so the BPF program obtains subflow sk's and may incorrectly replace their sk_prot. We need to reject such operations. In patch 1, we set psock_update_sk_prot to NULL in the subflow's custom sk_prot.
Additionally, if the server's listening socket has MPTCP enabled and the client's TCP also uses MPTCP, we should allow the combination of subflow and sockmap. This is because the latest Golang programs have enabled MPTCP for listening sockets by default [2]. For programs already using sockmap, upgrading Golang should not cause sockmap functionality to fail.
Patch 2 prevents the WARNING from occurring.
Despite these patches fixing stream corruption, users of sockmap must set GODEBUG=multipathtcp=0 to disable MPTCP until sockmap fully supports it.
[1] truncated warning: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 388 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:68 mptcp_stream_accept+0x34c/0x380 Modules linked in: RIP: 0010:mptcp_stream_accept+0x34c/0x380 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000cf3cf8 EFLAGS: 00010202 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> do_accept+0xeb/0x190 ? __x64_sys_pselect6+0x61/0x80 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30 ? alloc_fd+0x11e/0x190 __sys_accept4+0x8c/0x100 __x64_sys_accept+0x1f/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x202f/0x20f0 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x9a0 ? switch_fpu_return+0x60/0xf0 ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xdb/0x1e0 ? irqentry_exit+0x3f/0x50 ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0 ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0 ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[2]: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/607715
--- v4 -> v5: Dropped redundant selftest code, updated the Fixes tag, and added a Reviewed-by tag. v3 -> v4: Addressed questions from Matthieu and Paolo, explained sockmap's operational mechanism, and finalized the changes v2 -> v3: Adopted Jakub Sitnicki's suggestions - atomic retrieval of sk_family is required v1 -> v2: Had initial discussion with Matthieu on sockmap and MPTCP technical details
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251105113625.148900-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/ v3: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251023125450.105859-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/ v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251020060503.325369-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/T... v1: https://lore.kernel.org/mptcp/a0a2b87119a06c5ffaa51427a0964a05534fe6f1@linux...
Jiayuan Chen (3): mptcp: disallow MPTCP subflows from sockmap net,mptcp: fix proto fallback detection with BPF selftests/bpf: Add mptcp test with sockmap
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 6 +- net/mptcp/subflow.c | 8 + .../testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/mptcp.c | 141 ++++++++++++++++++ .../selftests/bpf/progs/mptcp_sockmap.c | 43 ++++++ 4 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/mptcp_sockmap.c
base-commit: 8c0726e861f3920bac958d76cf134b5a3aa14ce4