This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mptcp: push at DSS boundaries to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mptcp-push-at-dss-boundaries.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b9cd26f640a308ea314ad23532de9a8592cd09d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:14:14 +0100 Subject: mptcp: push at DSS boundaries From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b9cd26f640a308ea314ad23532de9a8592cd09d2 upstream. when inserting not contiguous data in the subflow write queue, the protocol creates a new skb and prevent the TCP stack from merging it later with already queued skbs by setting the EOR marker. Still no push flag is explicitly set at the end of previous GSO packet, making the aggregation on the receiver side sub-optimal - and packetdrill self-tests less predictable. Explicitly mark the end of not contiguous DSS with the push flag. Fixes: 6d0060f600ad ("mptcp: Write MPTCP DSS headers to outgoing data packets") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240223-upstream-net-20240223-misc-fixes-v1-4-162e87e48497@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -1350,6 +1350,7 @@ static int mptcp_sendmsg_frag(struct soc mpext = skb_ext_find(skb, SKB_EXT_MPTCP); if (!mptcp_skb_can_collapse_to(data_seq, skb, mpext)) { TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->eor = 1; + tcp_mark_push(tcp_sk(ssk), skb); goto alloc_skb; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/mptcp-push-at-dss-boundaries.patch queue-5.15/mptcp-fix-snd_wnd-initialization-for-passive-socket.patch queue-5.15/mptcp-rename-timer-related-helper-to-less-confusing-names.patch queue-5.15/mptcp-process-pending-subflow-error-on-close.patch queue-5.15/mptcp-fix-possible-deadlock-in-subflow-diag.patch queue-5.15/veth-try-harder-when-allocating-queue-memory.patch queue-5.15/gtp-fix-use-after-free-and-null-ptr-deref-in-gtp_newlink.patch queue-5.15/mptcp-move-__mptcp_error_report-in-protocol.c.patch