mptcp: cope better with MP_JOIN failure
Currently, on MP_JOIN failure we reset the child socket, but leave the request socket untouched. tcp_check_req will deal with it according to the 'tcp_abort_on_overflow' sysctl value - by default the req socket will stay alive. The above leads to inconsistent behavior on MP JOIN failure, and bad listener overflow accounting. This patch addresses the issue leveraging the infrastructure just introduced to ask the TCP stack to drop the req on failure. The child socket is not freed anymore by subflow_syn_recv_sock(), instead it's moved to a dead state and will be disposed by the next sock_put done by the TCP stack, so that listener overflow accounting is not affected by MP JOIN failure. Signed-off-by:Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com> Reviewed-by:
Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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