6.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" matttbe@kernel.org
commit 2293c57484ae64c9a3c847c8807db8c26a3a4d41 upstream.
During the connection establishment, a peer can tell the other one that it cannot establish new subflows to the initial IP address and port by setting the 'C' flag [1]. Doing so makes sense when the sender is behind a strict NAT, operating behind a legacy Layer 4 load balancer, or using anycast IP address for example.
When this 'C' flag is set, the path-managers must then not try to establish new subflows to the other peer's initial IP address and port. The in-kernel PM has access to this info, but the userspace PM didn't.
The RFC8684 [1] is strict about that:
(...) therefore the receiver MUST NOT try to open any additional subflows toward this address and port.
So it is important to tell the userspace about that as it is responsible for the respect of this flag.
When a new connection is created and established, the Netlink events now contain the existing but not currently used 'flags' attribute. When MPTCP_PM_EV_FLAG_DENY_JOIN_ID0 is set, it means no other subflows to the initial IP address and port -- info that are also part of the event -- can be established.
Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8684#section-3.1-20.6 [1] Fixes: 702c2f646d42 ("mptcp: netlink: allow userspace-driven subflow establishment") Reported-by: Marek Majkowski marek@cloudflare.com Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/532 Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau martineau@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912-net-mptcp-pm-uspace-deny_join_id0-v1-2-401... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org [ Conflicts in mptcp_pm.yaml, because the indentation has been modified in commit ec362192aa9e ("netlink: specs: fix up indentation errors"), which is not in this version. Applying the same modifications, but at a different level. ] Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml | 4 ++-- include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h | 2 ++ include/uapi/linux/mptcp_pm.h | 4 ++-- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 7 +++++++ 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml @@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ definitions: traffic-patterns it can take a long time until the MPTCP_EVENT_ESTABLISHED is sent. Attributes: token, family, saddr4 | saddr6, daddr4 | daddr6, sport, - dport, server-side. + dport, server-side, [flags]. - name: established doc: >- A MPTCP connection is established (can start new subflows). Attributes: token, family, saddr4 | saddr6, daddr4 | daddr6, sport, - dport, server-side. + dport, server-side, [flags]. - name: closed doc: >- --- a/include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ #define MPTCP_INFO_FLAG_FALLBACK _BITUL(0) #define MPTCP_INFO_FLAG_REMOTE_KEY_RECEIVED _BITUL(1)
+#define MPTCP_PM_EV_FLAG_DENY_JOIN_ID0 _BITUL(0) + #define MPTCP_PM_ADDR_FLAG_SIGNAL (1 << 0) #define MPTCP_PM_ADDR_FLAG_SUBFLOW (1 << 1) #define MPTCP_PM_ADDR_FLAG_BACKUP (1 << 2) --- a/include/uapi/linux/mptcp_pm.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/mptcp_pm.h @@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ * good time to allocate memory and send ADD_ADDR if needed. Depending on the * traffic-patterns it can take a long time until the MPTCP_EVENT_ESTABLISHED * is sent. Attributes: token, family, saddr4 | saddr6, daddr4 | daddr6, - * sport, dport, server-side. + * sport, dport, server-side, [flags]. * @MPTCP_EVENT_ESTABLISHED: A MPTCP connection is established (can start new * subflows). Attributes: token, family, saddr4 | saddr6, daddr4 | daddr6, - * sport, dport, server-side. + * sport, dport, server-side, [flags]. * @MPTCP_EVENT_CLOSED: A MPTCP connection has stopped. Attribute: token. * @MPTCP_EVENT_ANNOUNCED: A new address has been announced by the peer. * Attributes: token, rem_id, family, daddr4 | daddr6 [, dport]. --- a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c +++ b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ static int mptcp_event_created(struct sk const struct sock *ssk) { int err = nla_put_u32(skb, MPTCP_ATTR_TOKEN, READ_ONCE(msk->token)); + u16 flags = 0;
if (err) return err; @@ -415,6 +416,12 @@ static int mptcp_event_created(struct sk if (nla_put_u8(skb, MPTCP_ATTR_SERVER_SIDE, READ_ONCE(msk->pm.server_side))) return -EMSGSIZE;
+ if (READ_ONCE(msk->pm.remote_deny_join_id0)) + flags |= MPTCP_PM_EV_FLAG_DENY_JOIN_ID0; + + if (flags && nla_put_u16(skb, MPTCP_ATTR_FLAGS, flags)) + return -EMSGSIZE; + return mptcp_event_add_subflow(skb, ssk); }