6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com
commit 17393fa7b7086664be519e7230cb6ed7ec7d9462 upstream.
I'm observing very frequent self-tests failures in case of fallback when running on a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel.
The root cause is that subflow_sched_work_if_closed() closes any subflow as soon as it is half-closed and has no incoming data pending.
That works well for regular subflows - MPTCP needs bi-directional connectivity to operate on a given subflow - but for fallback socket is race prone.
When TCP peer closes the connection before the MPTCP one, subflow_sched_work_if_closed() will schedule the MPTCP worker to gracefully close the subflow, and shortly after will do another schedule to inject and process a dummy incoming DATA_FIN.
On CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel, the MPTCP worker can kick-in and close the fallback subflow before subflow_sched_work_if_closed() is able to create the dummy DATA_FIN, unexpectedly interrupting the transfer.
Address the issue explicitly avoiding closing fallback subflows on when the peer is only half-closed.
Note that, when the subflow is able to create the DATA_FIN before the worker invocation, the worker will change the msk state before trying to close the subflow and will skip the latter operation as the msk will not match anymore the precondition in __mptcp_close_subflow().
Fixes: f09b0ad55a11 ("mptcp: close subflow when receiving TCP+FIN") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-18-rc6-v1-3-806d378... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -2615,7 +2615,8 @@ static void __mptcp_close_subflow(struct
if (ssk_state != TCP_CLOSE && (ssk_state != TCP_CLOSE_WAIT || - inet_sk_state_load(sk) != TCP_ESTABLISHED)) + inet_sk_state_load(sk) != TCP_ESTABLISHED || + __mptcp_check_fallback(msk))) continue;
/* 'subflow_data_ready' will re-sched once rx queue is empty */