selftests: mptcp: avoid spurious errors on TCP disconnect
authorMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:25:52 +0000 (14:25 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:10:37 +0000 (18:10 -0700)
commit8708c5d8b3fb3f6d5d3b9e6bfe01a505819f519a
treef0931b19d83d19a7a04375f48390bb011c9eab53
parent14e22b43df25dbd4301351b882486ea38892ae4f
selftests: mptcp: avoid spurious errors on TCP disconnect

The disconnect test-case, with 'plain' TCP sockets generates spurious
errors, e.g.

  07 ns1 TCP   -> ns1 (dead:beef:1::1:10006) MPTCP
  read: Connection reset by peer
  read: Connection reset by peer
  (duration   155ms) [FAIL] client exit code 3, server 3

  netns ns1-FloSdv (listener) socket stat for 10006:
  TcpActiveOpens                  2                  0.0
  TcpPassiveOpens                 2                  0.0
  TcpEstabResets                  2                  0.0
  TcpInSegs                       274                0.0
  TcpOutSegs                      276                0.0
  TcpOutRsts                      3                  0.0
  TcpExtPruneCalled               2                  0.0
  TcpExtRcvPruned                 1                  0.0
  TcpExtTCPPureAcks               104                0.0
  TcpExtTCPRcvCollapsed           2                  0.0
  TcpExtTCPBacklogCoalesce        42                 0.0
  TcpExtTCPRcvCoalesce            43                 0.0
  TcpExtTCPChallengeACK           1                  0.0
  TcpExtTCPFromZeroWindowAdv      42                 0.0
  TcpExtTCPToZeroWindowAdv        41                 0.0
  TcpExtTCPWantZeroWindowAdv      13                 0.0
  TcpExtTCPOrigDataSent           164                0.0
  TcpExtTCPDelivered              165                0.0
  TcpExtTCPRcvQDrop               1                  0.0

In the failing scenarios (TCP -> MPTCP), the involved sockets are
actually plain TCP ones, as fallbacks for passive sockets at 2WHS time
cause the MPTCP listeners to actually create 'plain' TCP sockets.

Similar to commit 218cc166321f ("selftests: mptcp: avoid spurious errors
on disconnect"), the root cause is in the user-space bits: the test
program tries to disconnect as soon as all the pending data has been
spooled, generating an RST. If such option reaches the peer before the
connection has reached the closed status, the TCP socket will report an
error to the user-space, as per protocol specification, causing the
above failure. Note that it looks like this issue got more visible since
the "tcp: receiver changes" series from commit 06baf9bfa6ca ("Merge
branch 'tcp-receiver-changes'").

Address the issue by explicitly waiting for the TCP sockets (-t) to
reach a closed status before performing the disconnect. More precisely,
the test program now waits for plain TCP sockets or TCP subflows in
addition to the MPTCP sockets that were already monitored.

While at it, use 'ss' with '-n' to avoid resolving service names, which
is not needed here.

Fixes: 218cc166321f ("selftests: mptcp: avoid spurious errors on disconnect")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912-net-mptcp-fix-sft-connect-v1-3-d40e77cbbf02@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c