mptcp: avoid unneeded subflow-level drops

The rcv window is shared among all the subflows. Currently, MPTCP sync
the TCP-level rcv window with the MPTCP one at tcp_transmit_skb() time.

The above means that incoming data may sporadically observe outdated
TCP-level rcv window and being wrongly dropped by TCP.

Address the issue checking for the edge condition before queuing the
data at TCP level, and eventually syncing the rcv window as needed.

Note that the issue is actually present from the very first MPTCP
implementation, but backports older than the blamed commit below will
range from impossible to useless.

Before:

  $ nstat -n; sleep 1; nstat -z TcpExtBeyondWindow
  TcpExtBeyondWindow              14                 0.0

After:

  $ nstat -n; sleep 1; nstat -z TcpExtBeyondWindow
  TcpExtBeyondWindow              0                  0.0

Fixes: fa3fe2b15031 ("mptcp: track window announced to peer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-18-rc6-v1-2-806d3781c95f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.h b/net/mptcp/protocol.h
index 379a88e14e8d..5575ef64ea31 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.h
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.h
@@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ struct mptcp_subflow_context {
 	u64	remote_key;
 	u64	idsn;
 	u64	map_seq;
+	u64	rcv_wnd_sent;
 	u32	snd_isn;
 	u32	token;
 	u32	rel_write_seq;