FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mptcp: only inc MPJoinAckHMacFailure for HMAC failures" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 21c02e8272bc95ba0dd44943665c669029b42760
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025041752-shortwave-buddhist-9b7d@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 21c02e8272bc95ba0dd44943665c669029b42760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 20:26:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mptcp: only inc MPJoinAckHMacFailure for HMAC failures

Recently, during a debugging session using local MPTCP connections, I
noticed MPJoinAckHMacFailure was not zero on the server side. The
counter was in fact incremented when the PM rejected new subflows,
because the 'subflow' limit was reached.

The fix is easy, simply dissociating the two cases: only the HMAC
validation check should increase MPTCP_MIB_JOINACKMAC counter.

Fixes: 4cf8b7e48a09 ("subflow: introduce and use mptcp_can_accept_new_subflow()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250407-net-mptcp-hmac-failure-mib-v1-1-3c9ecd0a3a50@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/net/mptcp/subflow.c b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
index 409bd415ef1d..24c2de1891bd 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/subflow.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
@@ -899,13 +899,17 @@ static struct sock *subflow_syn_recv_sock(const struct sock *sk,
 				goto dispose_child;
 			}
 
-			if (!subflow_hmac_valid(req, &mp_opt) ||
-			    !mptcp_can_accept_new_subflow(subflow_req->msk)) {
+			if (!subflow_hmac_valid(req, &mp_opt)) {
 				SUBFLOW_REQ_INC_STATS(req, MPTCP_MIB_JOINACKMAC);
 				subflow_add_reset_reason(skb, MPTCP_RST_EPROHIBIT);
 				goto dispose_child;
 			}
 
+			if (!mptcp_can_accept_new_subflow(owner)) {
+				subflow_add_reset_reason(skb, MPTCP_RST_EPROHIBIT);
+				goto dispose_child;
+			}
+
 			/* move the msk reference ownership to the subflow */
 			subflow_req->msk = NULL;
 			ctx->conn = (struct sock *)owner;