[PATCH net] tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration

From: Jiayuan Chen

Date: Mon Aug 03 2026 - 02:22:01 EST


A listener's TCP_FASTOPEN max_qlen stops being accurate and lets through
far more pending Fast Open requests than it was configured for.

This only shows up with SO_REUSEPORT listener migration, where closing a
listener hands its still-pending TFO children over to a surviving one.

fastopenq.qlen is charged in tcp_fastopen_create_child() when the child
is created and uncharged in reqsk_fastopen_remove() when the handshake
completes. The uncharge follows rsk_listener of the request the child
points at, and inet_reqsk_clone() has repointed the child at a new
request owned by the new listener, so the ++ and the -- land on two
different sockets. The new listener's qlen drifts negative and its
limit no longer binds.

Charge the new listener during migration, like reqsk_queue_migrated()
already does for queue->young and queue->qlen.

Fixes: 54b92e841937 ("tcp: Migrate TCP_ESTABLISHED/TCP_SYN_RECV sockets in accept queues.")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fastopenq.qlen is read without the lock in tcp_fastopen_queue_check() and
has been since long before this patch, but as this is meant to be
backported I left the READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() conversion to a separate
patch.
---
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index 56902bba5483..6257459bcee2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -943,11 +943,23 @@ static struct request_sock *inet_reqsk_clone(struct request_sock *req,

nreq->rsk_listener = sk;

- /* We need not acquire fastopenq->lock
- * because the child socket is locked in inet_csk_listen_stop().
- */
- if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP && tcp_rsk(nreq)->tfo_listener)
+ if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP && tcp_rsk(nreq)->tfo_listener) {
+ struct fastopen_queue *fastopenq;
+
+ /* reqsk_fastopen_remove() will uncharge nreq->rsk_listener,
+ * that is @sk, so charge it here. Unlike the listener
+ * being closed, @sk is live and needs its lock.
+ */
+ fastopenq = &inet_csk(sk)->icsk_accept_queue.fastopenq;
+ spin_lock_bh(&fastopenq->lock);
+ fastopenq->qlen++;
+ spin_unlock_bh(&fastopenq->lock);
+
+ /* We need not acquire fastopenq->lock
+ * because the child socket is locked in inet_csk_listen_stop().
+ */
rcu_assign_pointer(tcp_sk(nreq->sk)->fastopen_rsk, nreq);
+ }

return nreq;
}
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2.43.0