mptcp: blackhole only if 1st SYN retrans w/o MPC is accepted

commit e598d8981fd34470b78a1ae777dbf131b15d5bf2 upstream.

The Fixes commit mentioned this:

> An MPTCP firewall blackhole can be detected if the following SYN
> retransmission after a fallback to "plain" TCP is accepted.

But in fact, this blackhole was detected if any following SYN
retransmissions after a fallback to TCP was accepted.

That's because 'mptcp_subflow_early_fallback()' will set 'request_mptcp'
to 0, and 'mpc_drop' will never be reset to 0 after.

This is an issue, because some not so unusual situations might cause the
kernel to detect a false-positive blackhole, e.g. a client trying to
connect to a server while the network is not ready yet, causing a few
SYN retransmissions, before reaching the end server.

Fixes: 27069e7cb3d1 ("mptcp: disable active MPTCP in case of blackhole")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mptcp/ctrl.c b/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
index b0dd008e2114..dd595d9b5e50 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
@@ -405,9 +405,9 @@ void mptcp_active_detect_blackhole(struct sock *ssk, bool expired)
 			MPTCP_INC_STATS(sock_net(ssk), MPTCP_MIB_MPCAPABLEACTIVEDROP);
 			subflow->mpc_drop = 1;
 			mptcp_subflow_early_fallback(mptcp_sk(subflow->conn), subflow);
-		} else {
-			subflow->mpc_drop = 0;
 		}
+	} else if (ssk->sk_state == TCP_SYN_SENT) {
+		subflow->mpc_drop = 0;
 	}
 }