This series should fix the recent instabilities seen by MPTCP and NIPA
CIs where the 'mptcp_connect.sh' tests fail regularly when running the
'disconnect' subtests with "plain" TCP sockets, e.g.
# INFO: disconnect
# 63 ns1 MPTCP -> ns1 (10.0.1.1:20001 ) MPTCP (duration 996ms) [ OK ]
# 64 ns1 MPTCP -> ns1 (10.0.1.1:20002 ) TCP (duration 851ms) [ OK ]
# 65 ns1 TCP -> ns1 (10.0.1.1:20003 ) MPTCP Unexpected revents: POLLERR/POLLNVAL(19)
# (duration 896ms) [FAIL] file received by server does not match (in, out):
# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11112852 Aug 19 09:16 /tmp/tmp.hlJe5DoMoq.disconnect
# Trailing bytes are:
# /{ga 6@=#.8:-rw------- 1 root root 10085368 Aug 19 09:16 /tmp/tmp.blClunilxx
# Trailing bytes are:
# /{ga 6@=#.8:66 ns1 MPTCP -> ns1 (dead:beef:1::1:20004) MPTCP (duration 987ms) [ OK ]
# 67 ns1 MPTCP -> ns1 (dead:beef:1::1:20005) TCP (duration 911ms) [ OK ]
# 68 ns1 TCP -> ns1 (dead:beef:1::1:20006) MPTCP (duration 980ms) [ OK ]
# [FAIL] Tests of the full disconnection have failed
These issues started to be visible after some behavioural changes in
TCP, where too quick re-connections after a shutdown() can now be more
easily rejected. Patch 3 modifies the selftests to wait, but this
resolution revealed an issue in MPTCP which is fixed by patch 1 (a fix
for v5.9 kernel).
Patches 2 and 4 improve some errors reported by the selftests, and patch
5 helps with the debugging of such issues.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
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Note: The last two patches are not strictly fixes, but they are useful
in case similar issues happen again. That's why they have been added
here in this series for -net. If that's an issue, please drop them, and
I can re-send them later on.
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Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) (5):
mptcp: propagate shutdown to subflows when possible
selftests: mptcp: connect: catch IO errors on listen side
selftests: mptcp: avoid spurious errors on TCP disconnect
selftests: mptcp: print trailing bytes with od
selftests: mptcp: connect: print pcap prefix
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c | 11 ++++++-----
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.sh | 6 +++++-
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_lib.sh | 2 +-
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 2690cb089502b80b905f2abdafd1bf2d54e1abef
change-id: 20250912-net-mptcp-fix-sft-connect-f095ad7a6e36
Best regards,
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Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>