mptcp: propagate shutdown to subflows when possible
authorMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:25:50 +0000 (14:25 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:10:36 +0000 (18:10 -0700)
commitf755be0b1ff429a2ecf709beeb1bcd7abc111c2b
tree05218309626287ffddda3763e35626952d58a8c3
parent71379e1c95af2c57567fcac24184c94cb7de4cd6
mptcp: propagate shutdown to subflows when possible

When the MPTCP DATA FIN have been ACKed, there is no more MPTCP related
metadata to exchange, and all subflows can be safely shutdown.

Before this patch, the subflows were actually terminated at 'close()'
time. That's certainly fine most of the time, but not when the userspace
'shutdown()' a connection, without close()ing it. When doing so, the
subflows were staying in LAST_ACK state on one side -- and consequently
in FIN_WAIT2 on the other side -- until the 'close()' of the MPTCP
socket.

Now, when the DATA FIN have been ACKed, all subflows are shutdown. A
consequence of this is that the TCP 'FIN' flag can be set earlier now,
but the end result is the same. This affects the packetdrill tests
looking at the end of the MPTCP connections, but for a good reason.

Note that tcp_shutdown() will check the subflow state, so no need to do
that again before calling it.

Fixes: 3721b9b64676 ("mptcp: Track received DATA_FIN sequence number and add related helpers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 16a9a9da1723 ("mptcp: Add helper to process acks of DATA_FIN")
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-v1-1-d40e77cbbf02@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/mptcp/protocol.c