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Commit ea66fcb2 authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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tcp: consistently disable header prediction for mptcp

commit 71158bb1 upstream.

The MPTCP receive path is hooked only into the TCP slow-path.
The DSS presence allows plain MPTCP traffic to hit that
consistently.

Since commit e1ff9e82 ("net: mptcp: improve fallback to TCP"),
when an MPTCP socket falls back to TCP, it can hit the TCP receive
fast-path, and delay or stop triggering the event notification.

Address the issue explicitly disabling the header prediction
for MPTCP sockets.

Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/200
Fixes: e1ff9e82

 ("net: mptcp: improve fallback to TCP")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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