[PATCH net] mptcp: return sk_wait_data() errors from recvmsg()

From: Mark Amirkan <redacted>

Commit 581302298524 ("mptcp: error out earlier on disconnect") made
mptcp_recvmsg() stop when sk_wait_data() returns an error.  The error is
stored in err, but the function then jumps to a path which returns
copied.  When no data was copied, recvmsg() therefore returns zero and
reports a false EOF.

Store the result in copied, which is the value returned by the function.
This also keeps the usual partial-read result when data was copied before
the error.

A recvmsg() blocked in one thread reproduces the issue when another
thread disconnects the same MPTCP socket with connect(AF_UNSPEC).
Before this change recvmsg() returns zero; afterwards it returns -EPIPE.

Fixes: 581302298524 ("mptcp: error out earlier on disconnect")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Symbolic
Signed-off-by: Mark Amirkan <redacted>
---
 net/mptcp/protocol.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index 0098e28309..8dc25ef154 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c

@@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ static int mptcp_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
 		mptcp_cleanup_rbuf(msk, copied);
 		err = sk_wait_data(sk, &timeo, last);
 		if (err < 0) {
-			err = copied ? : err;
+			copied = copied ? : err;
 			goto out_err;
 		}
 	}

---
base-commit: 78445023439506ebd83b86d40b1e428a3b309d4a
change-id: 20260913-b4-send-mptcp-recv-error-ef0f898e05cc

Best regards,
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Mark Amirkan [off-list ref]

Hi Mark,

On 13/09/2026 12:30, Mark Amirkan via B4 Relay wrote:

From: Mark Amirkan <redacted>

Commit 581302298524 ("mptcp: error out earlier on disconnect") made
mptcp_recvmsg() stop when sk_wait_data() returns an error.  The error is
stored in err, but the function then jumps to a path which returns
copied.  When no data was copied, recvmsg() therefore returns zero and
reports a false EOF.

Store the result in copied, which is the value returned by the function.
This also keeps the usual partial-read result when data was copied before
the error.

Good catch! Indeed, it looks like it is a typo and "copied" was supposed
to be assigned.

Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>

@Net maintainers: can you please apply it directly in the net tree? (if
no issues are spot by Clashiko) No need to take a detour via the MPTCP
tree for this fix.

A recvmsg() blocked in one thread reproduces the issue when another
thread disconnects the same MPTCP socket with connect(AF_UNSPEC).
Before this change recvmsg() returns zero; afterwards it returns -EPIPE.

I see that our test suite currently doesn't exercise this error path. By
chance, do you have a reproducer to avoid similar regressions later on?
Ideally, one using Packetdrill, the MPTCP fork in this case [1].

[1] https://github.com/multipath-tcp/packetdrill

Cheers,
Matt
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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref]:

On Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:30:05 +0000 you wrote:

From: Mark Amirkan <redacted>

Commit 581302298524 ("mptcp: error out earlier on disconnect") made
mptcp_recvmsg() stop when sk_wait_data() returns an error.  The error is
stored in err, but the function then jumps to a path which returns
copied.  When no data was copied, recvmsg() therefore returns zero and
reports a false EOF.

[...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] mptcp: return sk_wait_data() errors from recvmsg()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/60404266ef3e

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