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mptcp: pm: ignore unknown endpoint flags
authorMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:21:11 +0000 (08:21 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2026 09:14:57 +0000 (10:14 +0100)
commit984dc07404e2de65dbdaed435791af908d9cf5b7
tree48c5d3c6f77fd4c3c7c7c0786b9efb6d101be45c
parent2494b4d8a1ba45851db960a84ca8a2034756edf6
mptcp: pm: ignore unknown endpoint flags

[ Upstream commit 0ace3297a7301911e52d8195cb1006414897c859 ]

Before this patch, the kernel was saving any flags set by the userspace,
even unknown ones. This doesn't cause critical issues because the kernel
is only looking at specific ones. But on the other hand, endpoints dumps
could tell the userspace some recent flags seem to be supported on older
kernel versions.

Instead, ignore all unknown flags when parsing them. By doing that, the
userspace can continue to set unsupported flags, but it has a way to
verify what is supported by the kernel.

Note that it sounds better to continue accepting unsupported flags not
to change the behaviour, but also that eases things on the userspace
side by adding "optional" endpoint types only supported by newer kernel
versions without having to deal with the different kernel versions.

A note for the backports: there will be conflicts in mptcp.h on older
versions not having the mentioned flags, the new line should still be
added last, and the '5' needs to be adapted to have the same value as
the last entry.

Fixes: 01cacb00b35c ("mptcp: add netlink-based PM")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-19-rc1-v1-1-9e4781a6c1b8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ GENMASK(5, 0) => GENMASK(4, 0) + context ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c