[PATCH 5.14 097/172] mptcp: allow changing the backup bit when no sockets are open

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-04T13:38:32Z

From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 3f4a08909e2c740f8045efc74c4cf82eeaae3e36 ]

current Linux refuses to change the 'backup' bit of MPTCP endpoints, i.e.
using MPTCP_PM_CMD_SET_FLAGS, unless it finds (at least) one subflow that
matches the endpoint address. There is no reason for that, so we can just
ignore the return value of mptcp_nl_addr_backup(). In this way, endpoints
can reconfigure their 'backup' flag even if no MPTCP sockets are open (or
more generally, in case the MP_PRIO message is not sent out).

Fixes: 0f9f696a502e ("mptcp: add set_flags command in PM netlink")
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
index 89251cbe9f1a..81103b29c0af 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
@@ -1558,9 +1558,7 @@ static int mptcp_nl_cmd_set_flags(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)

list_for_each_entry(entry, &pernet->local_addr_list, list) {
if (addresses_equal(&entry->addr, &addr.addr, true)) {
- ret = mptcp_nl_addr_backup(net, &entry->addr, bkup);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
+ mptcp_nl_addr_backup(net, &entry->addr, bkup);

if (bkup)
entry->flags |= MPTCP_PM_ADDR_FLAG_BACKUP;
--
2.33.0