netdev - [PATCH net 2/8] mptcp: pm: kernel: flush: do not reset ADD

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Message-Id: <20250815-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-17-rc2-v1-2-521fe9957892@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:28:20 +0200
From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@...nel.org>
To: mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>, 
 Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
 Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...natelecom.cn>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, 
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@...edance.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org, 
 Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@...ula.no>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/8] mptcp: pm: kernel: flush: do not reset ADD_ADDR
 limit

A flush of the MPTCP endpoints should not affect the MPTCP limits. In
other words, 'ip mptcp endpoint flush' should not change 'ip mptcp
limits'.

But it was the case: the MPTCP_PM_ATTR_RCV_ADD_ADDRS (add_addr_accepted)
limit was reset by accident. Removing the reset of this counter during a
flush fixes this issue.

Fixes: 01cacb00b35c ("mptcp: add netlink-based PM")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@...ula.no>
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/579
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@...nel.org>
---
 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c b/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c
index d39e7c1784608db290b8a2c1bc4fc24ed800cbb4..667803d72b643a0bb98365003b136c53f2a9a975 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c
@@ -1085,7 +1085,6 @@ static void __flush_addrs(struct list_head *list)
 static void __reset_counters(struct pm_nl_pernet *pernet)
 {
 	WRITE_ONCE(pernet->add_addr_signal_max, 0);
-	WRITE_ONCE(pernet->add_addr_accept_max, 0);
 	WRITE_ONCE(pernet->local_addr_max, 0);
 	pernet->addrs = 0;
 }

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2.50.0