[RFC net-next 00/17] MPTCP KTLS support
From: Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-06-22 10:44:07
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From: Geliang Tang <redacted> Prior to this work, MPTCP did not support TLS. The two protocols conflicted because both MPTCP and TLS use the ULP (Upper Layer Protocol) infrastructure in the Linux kernel. ULP settings, including TLS configuration, were disabled in MPTCP. If an application attempted to set TLS for an MPTCP socket, the system would return an error code indicating EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported). This series adds KTLS support for MPTCP. Since no ULP is currently attached to the MPTCP socket (msk), KTLS can be configured directly on the msk rather than on individual subflows. This does not affect its existing communication, and leverages HMAC-based authentication to ensure subflow security. RFC versions of this series have gone through many iterations on MPTCP mailing list, mainly to address Sashiko's review comments. It is now mostly stable. A follow-up series will add MPTCP support to the TLS selftests (tools/testing/selftests/net/tls.c). All existing TCP test cases have already been verified to pass over MPTCP as well. The primary validation use case for this work is NVMe over MPTCP with KTLS. NVMe over TCP is a storage protocol that transports NVMe commands over TCP. By combining it with MPTCP, multipath capabilities for storage traffic are gained. By adding KTLS, the storage traffic is secured with encryption. Although NVMe over MPTCP is still under active development, I have already verified that KTLS operates correctly on top of it. All feedback is welcome. Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/480 Co-developed-by: Gang Yan <redacted> Signed-off-by: Gang Yan <redacted> Co-developed-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <redacted> Gang Yan (1): mptcp: update mptcp_check_readable helper Geliang Tang (16): tls: make tls_ctx_create and update_sk_prot static tls: factor out __tls_build_proto for mptcp support tls: add protocol dimension to tls operation cache mptcp: add sendmsg_locked to proto_ops tls: use sendmsg_locked from the underlying socket mptcp: implement peek_len for proto_ops tls: replace tcp_inq with socket peek_len tls: store original read_sock for non-tcp sockets tls: introduce tls protocol ops structure tls: use protocol ops via tls_context mptcp: implement mptcp-specific tls protocol ops tls: add mptcp support for sk_poll tls: disable device offload for mptcp sockets mptcp: implement ulp getsockopt for tls support mptcp: implement ulp setsockopt for tls support selftests: mptcp: connect: use espintcp for ulp test include/net/mptcp.h | 11 + include/net/tcp.h | 1 + include/net/tls.h | 19 ++ net/ipv4/tcp.c | 9 +- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 180 +++++++++++++- net/mptcp/protocol.h | 1 + net/mptcp/sockopt.c | 68 +++++- net/tls/tls.h | 2 - net/tls/tls_device.c | 10 +- net/tls/tls_main.c | 227 +++++++++++++++--- net/tls/tls_strp.c | 35 ++- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 10 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/config | 4 + .../selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c | 4 +- 14 files changed, 516 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) -- 2.53.0