The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 4f102d747cadd8f595f2b25882eed9bec1675fb1 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025112459-askew-underhand-3094@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 4f102d747cadd8f595f2b25882eed9bec1675fb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:20:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mptcp: avoid unneeded subflow-level drops

The rcv window is shared among all the subflows. Currently, MPTCP sync the TCP-level rcv window with the MPTCP one at tcp_transmit_skb() time.

The above means that incoming data may sporadically observe outdated TCP-level rcv window and being wrongly dropped by TCP.

Address the issue checking for the edge condition before queuing the data at TCP level, and eventually syncing the rcv window as needed.

Note that the issue is actually present from the very first MPTCP implementation, but backports older than the blamed commit below will range from impossible to useless.

Before:

$ nstat -n; sleep 1; nstat -z TcpExtBeyondWindow TcpExtBeyondWindow 14 0.0

After:

$ nstat -n; sleep 1; nstat -z TcpExtBeyondWindow TcpExtBeyondWindow 0 0.0

Fixes: fa3fe2b15031 ("mptcp: track window announced to peer") 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-v1-2-806d378... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org

diff --git a/net/mptcp/options.c b/net/mptcp/options.c index 8a63bd00807d..f24ae7d40e88 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/options.c +++ b/net/mptcp/options.c @@ -1044,6 +1044,31 @@ static void __mptcp_snd_una_update(struct mptcp_sock *msk, u64 new_snd_una) WRITE_ONCE(msk->snd_una, new_snd_una); }

+static void rwin_update(struct mptcp_sock *msk, struct sock *ssk, + struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + struct mptcp_subflow_context *subflow = mptcp_subflow_ctx(ssk); + struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(ssk); + u64 mptcp_rcv_wnd; + + /* Avoid touching extra cachelines if TCP is going to accept this + * skb without filling the TCP-level window even with a possibly + * outdated mptcp-level rwin. + */ + if (!skb->len || skb->len < tcp_receive_window(tp)) + return; + + mptcp_rcv_wnd = atomic64_read(&msk->rcv_wnd_sent); + if (!after64(mptcp_rcv_wnd, subflow->rcv_wnd_sent)) + return; + + /* Some other subflow grew the mptcp-level rwin since rcv_wup, + * resync. + */ + tp->rcv_wnd += mptcp_rcv_wnd - subflow->rcv_wnd_sent; + subflow->rcv_wnd_sent = mptcp_rcv_wnd; +} + static void ack_update_msk(struct mptcp_sock *msk, struct sock *ssk, struct mptcp_options_received *mp_opt) @@ -1211,6 +1236,7 @@ bool mptcp_incoming_options(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) */ if (mp_opt.use_ack) ack_update_msk(msk, sk, &mp_opt); + rwin_update(msk, sk, skb);

/* Zero-data-length packets are dropped by the caller and not * propagated to the MPTCP layer, so the skb extension does not @@ -1297,6 +1323,10 @@ static void mptcp_set_rwin(struct tcp_sock *tp, struct tcphdr *th)

if (rcv_wnd_new != rcv_wnd_old) { raise_win: + /* The msk-level rcv wnd is after the tcp level one, + * sync the latter. + */ + rcv_wnd_new = rcv_wnd_old; win = rcv_wnd_old - ack_seq; tp->rcv_wnd = min_t(u64, win, U32_MAX); new_win = tp->rcv_wnd; @@ -1320,6 +1350,7 @@ static void mptcp_set_rwin(struct tcp_sock *tp, struct tcphdr *th)

update_wspace: WRITE_ONCE(msk->old_wspace, tp->rcv_wnd); + subflow->rcv_wnd_sent = rcv_wnd_new; }

static void mptcp_track_rwin(struct tcp_sock *tp) diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.h b/net/mptcp/protocol.h index 379a88e14e8d..5575ef64ea31 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.h +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.h @@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ struct mptcp_subflow_context { u64 remote_key; u64 idsn; u64 map_seq; + u64 rcv_wnd_sent; u32 snd_isn; u32 token; u32 rel_write_seq;