[PATCH net-next 2/5] mptcp: preserve MSG_EOR semantics in sendmsg path

From: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)

Date: Fri Apr 03 2026 - 07:31:29 EST


From: Gang Yan <yangang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Extend MPTCP's sendmsg handling to recognize and honor the MSG_EOR flag,
which marks the end of a record for application-level message boundaries.

Data fragments tagged with MSG_EOR are explicitly marked in the
mptcp_data_frag structure and skb context to prevent unintended
coalescing with subsequent data chunks. This ensures the intent of
applications using MSG_EOR is preserved across MPTCP subflows,
maintaining consistent message segmentation behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gang Yan <yangang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
net/mptcp/protocol.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index 79315e575d07..e21e416cd19a 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -1005,7 +1005,8 @@ static bool mptcp_frag_can_collapse_to(const struct mptcp_sock *msk,
const struct page_frag *pfrag,
const struct mptcp_data_frag *df)
{
- return df && pfrag->page == df->page &&
+ return df && !df->eor &&
+ pfrag->page == df->page &&
pfrag->size - pfrag->offset > 0 &&
pfrag->offset == (df->offset + df->data_len) &&
df->data_seq + df->data_len == msk->write_seq;
@@ -1147,6 +1148,7 @@ mptcp_carve_data_frag(const struct mptcp_sock *msk, struct page_frag *pfrag,
dfrag->offset = offset + sizeof(struct mptcp_data_frag);
dfrag->already_sent = 0;
dfrag->page = pfrag->page;
+ dfrag->eor = 0;

return dfrag;
}
@@ -1408,6 +1410,13 @@ static int mptcp_sendmsg_frag(struct sock *sk, struct sock *ssk,
mptcp_update_infinite_map(msk, ssk, mpext);
trace_mptcp_sendmsg_frag(mpext);
mptcp_subflow_ctx(ssk)->rel_write_seq += copy;
+
+ /* if this is the last chunk of a dfrag with MSG_EOR set,
+ * mark the skb to prevent coalescing with subsequent data.
+ */
+ if (dfrag->eor && info->sent + copy >= dfrag->data_len)
+ TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->eor = 1;
+
return copy;
}

@@ -1868,7 +1877,8 @@ static int mptcp_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
long timeo;

/* silently ignore everything else */
- msg->msg_flags &= MSG_MORE | MSG_DONTWAIT | MSG_NOSIGNAL | MSG_FASTOPEN;
+ msg->msg_flags &= MSG_MORE | MSG_DONTWAIT | MSG_NOSIGNAL |
+ MSG_FASTOPEN | MSG_EOR;

lock_sock(sk);

@@ -1975,8 +1985,16 @@ static int mptcp_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
goto do_error;
}

- if (copied)
+ if (copied) {
+ /* mark the last dfrag with EOR if MSG_EOR was set */
+ if (msg->msg_flags & MSG_EOR) {
+ struct mptcp_data_frag *dfrag = mptcp_pending_tail(sk);
+
+ if (dfrag)
+ dfrag->eor = 1;
+ }
__mptcp_push_pending(sk, msg->msg_flags);
+ }

out:
release_sock(sk);
diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.h b/net/mptcp/protocol.h
index 02031007100b..1208f317ac33 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.h
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.h
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ struct mptcp_data_frag {
u16 data_len;
u16 offset;
u8 overhead;
- u8 __unused;
+ u8 eor; /* currently using 1 bit */
u16 already_sent;
struct page *page;
};

--
2.53.0