mptcp: honour configured min/max RTO in retransmit paths

The MPTCP-level retransmit timers (DATA_FIN retransmissions and the
fallback timeout) used the hard-coded TCP_RTO_MIN / TCP_RTO_MAX
constants, ignoring the tcp_rto_min_us and tcp_rto_max_ms sysctls.

Make them follow the sysctls instead: seed icsk_rto_min / icsk_rto_max
on the MPTCP socket from the per-netns sysctls in __mptcp_init_sock()
-- the msk does not go through tcp_init_sock(), so these fields would
otherwise stay zero -- and read them directly where the constants were
used:

- mptcp_set_datafin_timeout(): both the backoff cap computation and
  the resulting timer_ival. The two sysctls are validated
  independently, so rto_min > rto_max is a valid configuration; keep
  a max_t() guard so ilog2() is never called with 0.

- __mptcp_set_timeout(): the fallback when no subflow timeout is
  available.

The icsk fields are read directly instead of using the
tcp_rto_min()/tcp_rto_max() helpers: the MPTCP socket does not perform
routing lookups in these paths, so the rto_min route metric checked by
tcp_rto_min() can never apply here. The TCP_RTO_MIN_US /
TCP_RTO_MAX_MS socket options are not supported by MPTCP setsockopt()
either; this can be revisited if they get supported on MPTCP sockets.

The remaining uses of TCP_RTO_MAX in net/mptcp/ctrl.c (default
add_addr_timeout) and net/mptcp/subflow.c (MP_FAIL timeout) are
intentionally left unchanged: they use the constant as a default
duration, not as an RTO bound on a retransmit timer.

Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/618
Signed-off-by: Kalpan Jani <kalpan.jani@mpiricsoftware.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260812-net-next-mptcp-misc-feat-7-3-v1-4-1905a818f6cb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index ec874d2ead6a..8f074d757743 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -581,17 +581,23 @@ static bool mptcp_pending_data_fin(struct sock *sk, u64 *seq)
 static void mptcp_set_datafin_timeout(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
+	u32 rto_min = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_rto_min);
+	u32 rto_max = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_rto_max);
 	u32 retransmits;
 
+	/* The sysctls are validated independently: rto_min > rto_max is
+	 * possible, guard against ilog2(0).
+	 */
 	retransmits = min_t(u32, icsk->icsk_retransmits,
-			    ilog2(TCP_RTO_MAX / TCP_RTO_MIN));
+			    ilog2(max_t(u32, rto_max / rto_min, 1)));
 
-	mptcp_sk(sk)->timer_ival = TCP_RTO_MIN << retransmits;
+	mptcp_sk(sk)->timer_ival = rto_min << retransmits;
 }
 
 static void __mptcp_set_timeout(struct sock *sk, long tout)
 {
-	mptcp_sk(sk)->timer_ival = tout > 0 ? tout : TCP_RTO_MIN;
+	mptcp_sk(sk)->timer_ival = tout > 0 ? tout :
+				   READ_ONCE(inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto_min);
 }
 
 static long mptcp_timeout_from_subflow(const struct mptcp_subflow_context *subflow)
@@ -3161,7 +3167,9 @@ unlock:
 
 static void __mptcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk)
 {
+	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
 	struct mptcp_sock *msk = mptcp_sk(sk);
+	struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&msk->conn_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&msk->join_list);
@@ -3170,7 +3178,13 @@ static void __mptcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk)
 	INIT_WORK(&msk->work, mptcp_worker);
 	msk->out_of_order_queue = RB_ROOT;
 	msk->first_pending = NULL;
-	msk->timer_ival = TCP_RTO_MIN;
+
+	/* msk does not go through tcp_init_sock(); seed RTO bounds. */
+	icsk->icsk_rto_min =
+		usecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_rto_min_us));
+	icsk->icsk_rto_max =
+		msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_rto_max_ms));
+	msk->timer_ival = icsk->icsk_rto_min;
 	msk->scaling_ratio = TCP_DEFAULT_SCALING_RATIO;
 	msk->backlog_len = 0;
 	mptcp_init_rtt_est(msk);