mptcp: add new sock flag to deal with join subflows

MP_JOIN subflows must not land into the accept queue.
Currently tcp_check_req() calls an mptcp specific helper
to detect such scenario.

Such helper leverages the subflow context to check for
MP_JOIN subflows. We need to deal also with MP JOIN
failures, even when the subflow context is not available
due allocation failure.

A possible solution would be changing the syn_recv_sock()
signature to allow returning a more descriptive action/
error code and deal with that in tcp_check_req().

Since the above need is MPTCP specific, this patch instead
uses a TCP request socket hole to add a MPTCP specific flag.
Such flag is used by the MPTCP syn_recv_sock() to tell
tcp_check_req() how to deal with the request socket.

This change is a no-op for !MPTCP build, and makes the
MPTCP code simpler. It allows also the next patch to deal
correctly with MP JOIN failure.

v1 -> v2:
 - be more conservative on drop_req initialization (Mat)

RFC -> v1:
 - move the drop_req bit inside tcp_request_sock (Eric)

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index e1f23016ed3f..a61e60e94137 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -1638,13 +1638,6 @@ bool mptcp_finish_join(struct sock *sk)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-bool mptcp_sk_is_subflow(const struct sock *sk)
-{
-	struct mptcp_subflow_context *subflow = mptcp_subflow_ctx(sk);
-
-	return subflow->mp_join == 1;
-}
-
 static bool mptcp_memory_free(const struct sock *sk, int wake)
 {
 	struct mptcp_sock *msk = mptcp_sk(sk);
diff --git a/net/mptcp/subflow.c b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
index 009d5c478062..5e03ed8ae899 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/subflow.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
@@ -470,6 +470,8 @@ create_child:
 	if (child && *own_req) {
 		struct mptcp_subflow_context *ctx = mptcp_subflow_ctx(child);
 
+		tcp_rsk(req)->drop_req = false;
+
 		/* we need to fallback on ctx allocation failure and on pre-reqs
 		 * checking above. In the latter scenario we additionally need
 		 * to reset the context to non MPTCP status.
@@ -512,6 +514,7 @@ create_child:
 				goto close_child;
 
 			SUBFLOW_REQ_INC_STATS(req, MPTCP_MIB_JOINACKRX);
+			tcp_rsk(req)->drop_req = true;
 		}
 	}