[PATCH net-next 04/11] mptcp: honour configured min/max RTO in retransmit paths
From: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 11:03:57 EST
From: Kalpan Jani <kalpan.jani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
1 file 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 @@ static void mptcp_worker(struct work_struct *work)
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);
--
2.53.0