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authorGravatar Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> 2020-07-28 15:12:08 -0700
committerGravatar David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 2020-07-28 17:02:42 -0700
commit06827b348b1d43850a63c3e490fe9712c124fa0c (patch)
tree183eefce7826039fd91dd6e8f67db426222e6fb4 /net/mptcp
parentmptcp: Only use subflow EOF signaling on fallback connections (diff)
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mptcp: Skip unnecessary skb extension allocation for bare acks
Bare TCP ack skbs are freed right after MPTCP sees them, so the work to allocate, zero, and populate the MPTCP skb extension is wasted. Detect these skbs and do not add skb extensions to them. Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mptcp')
-rw-r--r--net/mptcp/options.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mptcp/options.c b/net/mptcp/options.c
index b4458ecd01f8..7fa822b55c34 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/options.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/options.c
@@ -868,15 +868,18 @@ void mptcp_incoming_options(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (mp_opt.use_ack)
update_una(msk, &mp_opt);
- /* Zero-length packets, like bare ACKs carrying a DATA_FIN, are
- * dropped by the caller and not propagated to the MPTCP layer.
- * Copy the DATA_FIN information now.
+ /* Zero-data-length packets are dropped by the caller and not
+ * propagated to the MPTCP layer, so the skb extension does not
+ * need to be allocated or populated. DATA_FIN information, if
+ * present, needs to be updated here before the skb is freed.
*/
if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq == TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq) {
if (mp_opt.data_fin && mp_opt.data_len == 1 &&
mptcp_update_rcv_data_fin(msk, mp_opt.data_seq) &&
schedule_work(&msk->work))
sock_hold(subflow->conn);
+
+ return;
}
mpext = skb_ext_add(skb, SKB_EXT_MPTCP);