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core/socket: allow MPTCP protocol

Multipath TCP (MPTCP), standardized in RFC8684 [1], is a TCP extension
that enables a TCP connection to use different paths. It allows a device
to make use of multiple interfaces at once to send and receive TCP
packets over a single MPTCP connection. MPTCP can aggregate the
bandwidth of multiple interfaces or prefer the one with the lowest
latency, it also allows a fail-over if one path is down, and the traffic
is seamlessly re-injected on other paths.

To benefit from MPTCP, both the client and the server have to support
it. Multipath TCP is a backward-compatible TCP extension that is enabled
by default on recent Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, ...).
Multipath TCP is included in the Linux kernel since version 5.6 [2]. To
use it on Linux, an application must explicitly enable it when creating
the socket:

  int sd = socket(AF_INET(6), SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_MPTCP);

No need to change anything else in the application.

This patch allows MPTCP protocol in the Socket unit configuration. So
now, a <unit>.socket can contain this to use MPTCP instead of TCP:

  [Socket]
  SocketProtocol=mptcp

MPTCP support has been allowed similarly to what has been already done
to allow SCTP: just one line in core/socket.c, a very simple addition
thanks to the flexible architecture already in place.

On top of that, IPPROTO_MPTCP has also been added in the list of allowed
protocols in two other places, and in the doc. It has also been added to
the missing_network.h file, for systems with an old libc -- note that it
was also required to include <netinet/in.h> in this file to avoid
redefinition errors.

Link: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8684.html [1]
Link: https://www.mptcp.dev [2]
This commit is contained in:
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) 2024-05-20 18:37:17 +02:00 committed by Luca Boccassi
parent 608bfe76c1
commit 3f69070598
7 changed files with 21 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -318,10 +318,11 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SocketProtocol=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes one of <option>udplite</option>
or <option>sctp</option>. The socket will use the UDP-Lite
(<constant>IPPROTO_UDPLITE</constant>) or SCTP
(<constant>IPPROTO_SCTP</constant>) protocol, respectively.</para>
<listitem><para>Takes one of <option>udplite</option>,
<option>sctp</option> or <option>mptcp</option>. The socket will use
the UDP-Lite (<constant>IPPROTO_UDPLITE</constant>), SCTP
(<constant>IPPROTO_SCTP</constant>) or MPTCP
(<constant>IPPROTO_MPTCP</constant>) protocol, respectively.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v229"/>
</listitem>

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@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
#pragma once
#include <netinet/in.h>
/* linux/in6.h or netinet/in.h */
#ifndef IPV6_UNICAST_IF
#define IPV6_UNICAST_IF 76
@ -11,6 +13,11 @@
#define IPV6_TRANSPARENT 75
#endif
/* linux/in.h or netinet/in.h */
#ifndef IPPROTO_MPTCP
#define IPPROTO_MPTCP 262
#endif
/* Not exposed but defined at include/net/ip.h */
#ifndef IPV4_MIN_MTU
#define IPV4_MIN_MTU 68

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@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static const char* socket_protocol_to_string(int32_t i) {
if (i == IPPROTO_IP)
return "";
if (!IN_SET(i, IPPROTO_UDPLITE, IPPROTO_SCTP))
if (!IN_SET(i, IPPROTO_UDPLITE, IPPROTO_SCTP, IPPROTO_MPTCP))
return NULL;
return ip_protocol_to_name(i);

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@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static int parse_socket_protocol(const char *s) {
r = parse_ip_protocol(s);
if (r < 0)
return r;
if (!IN_SET(r, IPPROTO_UDPLITE, IPPROTO_SCTP))
if (!IN_SET(r, IPPROTO_UDPLITE, IPPROTO_SCTP, IPPROTO_MPTCP))
return -EPROTONOSUPPORT;
return r;

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@ -1645,6 +1645,10 @@ static int socket_open_fds(Socket *orig_s) {
switch (p->address.type) {
case SOCK_STREAM:
if (IN_SET(s->socket_protocol, IPPROTO_SCTP, IPPROTO_MPTCP))
p->address.protocol = s->socket_protocol;
break;
case SOCK_SEQPACKET:
if (s->socket_protocol == IPPROTO_SCTP)
p->address.protocol = s->socket_protocol;

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@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ TEST(string) {
TEST(parse_ip_protocol) {
assert_se(parse_ip_protocol("sctp") == IPPROTO_SCTP);
assert_se(parse_ip_protocol("ScTp") == IPPROTO_SCTP);
assert_se(parse_ip_protocol("mptcp") == IPPROTO_MPTCP);
assert_se(parse_ip_protocol("MPTCP") == IPPROTO_MPTCP);
assert_se(parse_ip_protocol("ip") == IPPROTO_IP);
assert_se(parse_ip_protocol("") == IPPROTO_IP);
assert_se(parse_ip_protocol("1") == 1);

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@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ ListenMessageQueue=
ListenUSBFunction=
SocketProtocol=udplite
SocketProtocol=sctp
SocketProtocol=mptcp
SocketProtocol=
BindIPv6Only=false
Backlog=33