On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 21:24 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 6:54 PM Florian Westphal [off-list ref] wrote:

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Paul Moore [off-list ref] wrote:

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I'm not very well versed in MPTCP, but this *seems* okay to me, minus
the else-crud chunk.  Just to confirm my understanding, while MPTCP
allows one TCP connection/stream to be subdivided and distributed
across multiple interfaces, it does not allow multiple TCP streams to
be multiplexed on a single connection, yes?

Its the latter.  The application sees a TCP interface (socket), but
data may be carried over multiple individual tcp streams on the wire.

Hmm, that may complicate things a bit from a SELinux perspective.  Maybe not.

Just to make sure I understand, with MPTCP, a client that
traditionally opened multiple TCP sockets to talk to a server would
now just open a single MPTCP socket and create multiple sub-flows
instead of multiple TCP sockets?

I expect most clients will not be updated specifically for MPTCP,
except changing the protocol number at socket creation time - and we
would like to avoid even that.

If a given application creates multiple sockets, it will still do that
with MPTCP. The kernel, according to the configuration provided by the
user-space and/or by the peer, may try to create additional subflows
for each MPTCP sockets, using different local or remote address and/or
port number. Each subflow is represented inside the kernel as a TCP
'struct sock' with specific ULP operations. No related 'struct socket'
is exposed to user-space.

Cheers,

Paolo