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Commit c137ee44 authored by Davide Caratti's avatar Davide Caratti Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mptcp: don't account accept() of non-MPC client as fallback to TCP

commit 7a1b3490 upstream.

Current MPTCP servers increment MPTcpExtMPCapableFallbackACK when they
accept non-MPC connections. As reported by Christoph, this is "surprising"
because the counter might become greater than MPTcpExtMPCapableSYNRX.

MPTcpExtMPCapableFallbackACK counter's name suggests it should only be
incremented when a connection was seen using MPTCP options, then a
fallback to TCP has been done. Let's do that by incrementing it when
the subflow context of an inbound MPC connection attempt is dropped.
Also, update mptcp_connect.sh kselftest, to ensure that the
above MIB does not increment in case a pure TCP client connects to a
MPTCP server.

Fixes: fc518953

 ("mptcp: add and use MIB counter infrastructure")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarChristoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/449


Signed-off-by: default avatarDavide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240329-upstream-net-20240329-fallback-mib-v1-1-324a8981da48@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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