netdev - [PATCH net] mptcp: Do not return EINPROGRESS when subflow creation succeeds

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:52:31 -0700
From:   Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, matthieu.baerts@...sares.net, fw@...len.de,
        mptcp@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH net] mptcp: Do not return EINPROGRESS when subflow creation succeeds

New subflows are created within the kernel using O_NONBLOCK, so
EINPROGRESS is the expected return value from kernel_connect().
__mptcp_subflow_connect() has the correct logic to consider EINPROGRESS
to be a successful case, but it has also used that error code as its
return value.

Before v5.19 this was benign: all the callers ignored the return
value. Starting in v5.19 there is a MPTCP_PM_CMD_SUBFLOW_CREATE generic
netlink command that does use the return value, so the EINPROGRESS gets
propagated to userspace.

Make __mptcp_subflow_connect() always return 0 on success instead.

Fixes: ec3edaa7ca6c ("mptcp: Add handling of outgoing MP_JOIN requests")
Fixes: 702c2f646d42 ("mptcp: netlink: allow userspace-driven subflow establishment")
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>
---

Note: The original author of ec3edaa7ca6c is no longer reachable at that
email address.

---
 net/mptcp/subflow.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/subflow.c b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
index 63e8892ec807..af28f3b60389 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/subflow.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
@@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ int __mptcp_subflow_connect(struct sock *sk, const struct mptcp_addr_info *loc,
 	mptcp_sock_graft(ssk, sk->sk_socket);
 	iput(SOCK_INODE(sf));
 	WRITE_ONCE(msk->allow_infinite_fallback, false);
-	return err;
+	return 0;

 failed_unlink:
 	list_del(&subflow->node);

base-commit: 9af0620de1e118666881376f6497d1785758b04c
-- 
2.37.1