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SO_KEEPALIVE support has been added a while ago, as part of a series "adding SOL_SOCKET" support. To have a full control of this keep-alive feature, it is important to also support TCP_KEEP* socket options at the SOL_TCP level. Supporting them on the setsockopt() part is easy, it is just a matter of remembering each value in the MPTCP sock structure, and calling tcp_sock_set_keep*() helpers on each subflow. If the value is not modified (0), calling these helpers will not do anything. For the getsockopt() part, the corresponding value from the MPTCP sock structure or the default one is simply returned. All of this is very similar to other TCP_* socket options supported by MPTCP. It looks important for kernels supporting SO_KEEPALIVE, to also support TCP_KEEP* options as well: some apps seem to (wrongly) consider that if the former is supported, the latter ones will be supported as well. But also, not having this simple and isolated change is preventing MPTCP support in some apps, and libraries like GoLang [1]. This is why this patch is seen as a fix. Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/383 Fixes: 1b3e7ede1365 ("mptcp: setsockopt: handle SO_KEEPALIVE and SO_PRIORITY") Link: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56539 [1] Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240514011335.176158-3-martineau@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.