The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands: git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 72377ab2d671befd6390a1d5677f5cca61235b65 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to '<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>' --in-reply-to '2023102002-grooving-carnivore-aa31@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^.. Possible dependencies: thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 72377ab2d671befd6390a1d5677f5cca61235b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:23:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mptcp: more conservative check for zero probes Christoph reported that the MPTCP protocol can find the subflow-level write queue unexpectedly not empty while crafting a zero-window probe, hitting a warning: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 188 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:1312 mptcp_sendmsg_frag+0xc06/0xe70 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 188 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc2-g1176aa719d7a #47 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events mptcp_worker RIP: 0010:mptcp_sendmsg_frag+0xc06/0xe70 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1312 RAX: 47d0530de347ff6a RBX: 47d0530de347ff6b RCX: ffff8881015d3c00 RDX: ffff8881015d3c00 RSI: 47d0530de347ff6b RDI: 47d0530de347ff6b RBP: 47d0530de347ff6b R08: ffffffff8243c6a8 R09: ffffffff82042d9c R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffffffff82056850 R12: ffff88812a13d580 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88812b375e50 R15: ffff88812bbf3200 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000695118 CR3: 0000000115dfc001 CR4: 0000000000170ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> __subflow_push_pending+0xa4/0x420 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1545 __mptcp_push_pending+0x128/0x3b0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1614 mptcp_release_cb+0x218/0x5b0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:3391 release_sock+0xf6/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3521 mptcp_worker+0x6e8/0x8f0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2746 process_scheduled_works+0x341/0x690 kernel/workqueue.c:2630 worker_thread+0x3a7/0x610 kernel/workqueue.c:2784 kthread+0x143/0x180 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304 </TASK> The root cause of the issue is that expectations are wrong: e.g. due to MPTCP-level re-injection we can hit the critical condition. Explicitly avoid the zero-window probe when the subflow write queue is not empty and drop the related warnings. Reported-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/444 Fixes: f70cad1085d1 ("mptcp: stop relying on tcp_tx_skb_cache") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018-send-net-20231018-v1-3-17ecb002e41d@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c index d1902373c974..4e30e5ba3795 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static int mptcp_sendmsg_frag(struct sock *sk, struct sock *ssk, if (copy == 0) { u64 snd_una = READ_ONCE(msk->snd_una); - if (snd_una != msk->snd_nxt) { + if (snd_una != msk->snd_nxt || tcp_write_queue_tail(ssk)) { tcp_remove_empty_skb(ssk); return 0; } @@ -1306,11 +1306,6 @@ static int mptcp_sendmsg_frag(struct sock *sk, struct sock *ssk, zero_window_probe = true; data_seq = snd_una - 1; copy = 1; - - /* all mptcp-level data is acked, no skbs should be present into the - * ssk write queue - */ - WARN_ON_ONCE(reuse_skb); } copy = min_t(size_t, copy, info->limit - info->sent); @@ -1339,7 +1334,6 @@ static int mptcp_sendmsg_frag(struct sock *sk, struct sock *ssk, if (reuse_skb) { TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags &= ~TCPHDR_PSH; mpext->data_len += copy; - WARN_ON_ONCE(zero_window_probe); goto out; }