netdev - [PATCH net 4/4] mptcp: do not wakeup listener for MPJ subflows

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Date:   Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:35:40 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, mptcp@...ts.01.org,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: [PATCH net 4/4] mptcp: do not wakeup listener for MPJ subflows

MPJ subflows are not exposed as fds to user spaces. As such,
incoming MPJ subflows are removed from the accept queue by
tcp_check_req()/tcp_get_cookie_sock().

Later tcp_child_process() invokes subflow_data_ready() on the
parent socket regardless of the subflow kind, leading to poll
wakeups even if the later accept will block.

Address the issue by double-checking the queue state before
waking the user-space.

Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/164
Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@...hat.com>
Fixes: f296234c98a8 ("mptcp: Add handling of incoming MP_JOIN requests")
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
---
 net/mptcp/subflow.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/subflow.c b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
index 8b2338dfdc80..59f992fe6728 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/subflow.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
@@ -1018,6 +1018,12 @@ static void subflow_data_ready(struct sock *sk)
 
 	msk = mptcp_sk(parent);
 	if (state & TCPF_LISTEN) {
+		/* MPJ subflow are removed from accept queue before reaching here,
+		 * avoid stray wakeups
+		 */
+		if (reqsk_queue_empty(&inet_csk(sk)->icsk_accept_queue))
+			return;
+
 		set_bit(MPTCP_DATA_READY, &msk->flags);
 		parent->sk_data_ready(parent);
 		return;
-- 
2.26.2