FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Revert "mptcp: add needs_id for netlink appending addr"" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-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-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 8e2760eaab778494fc1fa257031e0e1799647f46
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026041226-animating-improve-ed02@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 8e2760eaab778494fc1fa257031e0e1799647f46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 10:41:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "mptcp: add needs_id for netlink appending addr"

This commit was originally adding the ability to add MPTCP endpoints
with ID 0 by accident. The in-kernel PM, handling MPTCP endpoints at the
net namespace level, is not supposed to handle endpoints with such ID,
because this ID 0 is reserved to the initial subflow, as mentioned in
the MPTCPv1 protocol [1], a per-connection setting.

Note that 'ip mptcp endpoint add id 0' stops early with an error, but
other tools might still request the in-kernel PM to create MPTCP
endpoints with this restricted ID 0.

In other words, it was wrong to call the mptcp_pm_has_addr_attr_id
helper to check whether the address ID attribute is set: if it was set
to 0, a new MPTCP endpoint would be created with ID 0, which is not
expected, and might cause various issues later.

Fixes: 584f38942626 ("mptcp: add needs_id for netlink appending addr")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8684#section-3.2-9 [1]
Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407-net-mptcp-revert-pm-needs-id-v2-1-7a25cbc324f8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c b/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c
index 82e59f9c6dd9..0ebf43be9939 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static void __mptcp_pm_release_addr_entry(struct mptcp_pm_addr_entry *entry)
 
 static int mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr(struct pm_nl_pernet *pernet,
 					     struct mptcp_pm_addr_entry *entry,
-					     bool needs_id, bool replace)
+					     bool replace)
 {
 	struct mptcp_pm_addr_entry *cur, *del_entry = NULL;
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ static int mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr(struct pm_nl_pernet *pernet,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (!entry->addr.id && needs_id) {
+	if (!entry->addr.id) {
 find_next:
 		entry->addr.id = find_next_zero_bit(pernet->id_bitmap,
 						    MPTCP_PM_MAX_ADDR_ID + 1,
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ static int mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr(struct pm_nl_pernet *pernet,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (!entry->addr.id && needs_id)
+	if (!entry->addr.id)
 		goto out;
 
 	__set_bit(entry->addr.id, pernet->id_bitmap);
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ int mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id(struct mptcp_sock *msk,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	entry->addr.port = 0;
-	ret = mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr(pernet, entry, true, false);
+	ret = mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr(pernet, entry, false);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		kfree(entry);
 
@@ -977,18 +977,6 @@ static int mptcp_nl_add_subflow_or_signal_addr(struct net *net,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static bool mptcp_pm_has_addr_attr_id(const struct nlattr *attr,
-				      struct genl_info *info)
-{
-	struct nlattr *tb[MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_MAX + 1];
-
-	if (!nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb, MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_MAX, attr,
-					 mptcp_pm_address_nl_policy, info->extack) &&
-	    tb[MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_ID])
-		return true;
-	return false;
-}
-
 /* Add an MPTCP endpoint */
 int mptcp_pm_nl_add_addr_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 {
@@ -1037,9 +1025,7 @@ int mptcp_pm_nl_add_addr_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 			goto out_free;
 		}
 	}
-	ret = mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr(pernet, entry,
-						!mptcp_pm_has_addr_attr_id(attr, info),
-						true);
+	ret = mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr(pernet, entry, true);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		GENL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info, "too many addresses or duplicate one: %d", ret);
 		goto out_free;