mptcp: fastopen: only mark MPTFO subflows with SYN data
authorWyatt Feng <bronzed_45_vested@icloud.com>
Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:16:39 +0000 (18:16 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 6 Aug 2026 15:46:23 +0000 (08:46 -0700)
commite00b63056fb4f261455b3e5df5268a1f8ce47a87
tree8d63738d1551257397d1fc4adaaac14cd531bfe9
parentefc33b5102ff859bacd390a5f30112d8e0c084c0
mptcp: fastopen: only mark MPTFO subflows with SYN data

Passive TCP Fast Open accepts a valid-cookie SYN even when it carries
no data. In that case the child socket's receive queue is intentionally
left empty.

mptcp_fastopen_subflow_synack_set_params() set is_mptfo before checking
for queued SYN data. That made data-less TFO SYNs hit a WARN and, if
the warning was non-fatal, left stale MPTFO state behind. The stale
flag could later trigger a state-confusion bug in
check_fully_established().

Only mark the subflow as MPTFO after confirming that an SKB was queued.
Return quietly when the receive queue is empty.

Note that mptcp_subflow_context's is_mptfo field is now not just about
subflows where the TFO was present, but about MPTFO subflow that
consumed SYN data. Only having a valid cookie but not carrying data is
not really "doing TFO".

Fixes: 36b122baf6a8 ("mptcp: add subflow_v(4,6)_send_synack()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Zhengchuan Liang <zcliangcn@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wyatt Feng <bronzed_45_vested@icloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-7-2-rc6-v2-7-b8f496d71664@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/mptcp/fastopen.c