Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] tcp: add tcp_sock_set_maxseg

[Geliang Tang]

Hi Matt,

On Wed, 2025-07-16 at 12:28 +0200, Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) wrote:
> From: Geliang Tang <tanggeliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a helper tcp_sock_set_maxseg() to directly set the TCP_MAXSEG
> sockopt from kernel space.
> 
> This new helper will be used in the following patch from MPTCP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <tanggeliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/tcp.h |  1 +
>  net/ipv4/tcp.c      | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
> index
> 1a5737b3753d06165bc71e257a261bcd7a0085ce..57e478bfaef20369f5dba1cff54
> 0e52c9302ebf4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tcp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
> @@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ void tcp_sock_set_nodelay(struct sock *sk);
>  void tcp_sock_set_quickack(struct sock *sk, int val);
>  int tcp_sock_set_syncnt(struct sock *sk, int val);
>  int tcp_sock_set_user_timeout(struct sock *sk, int val);
> +int tcp_sock_set_maxseg(struct sock *sk, int val);
>  
>  static inline bool dst_tcp_usec_ts(const struct dst_entry *dst)
>  {
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index
> 31149a0ac849192b46c67dd569efeeeb0a041a0b..c9cdc4e99c4f11a75471b8895b9
> c52ad8da3a7ff 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -3751,6 +3751,19 @@ int tcp_set_window_clamp(struct sock *sk, int
> val)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +int tcp_sock_set_maxseg(struct sock *sk, int val)
> +{
> +	/* Values greater than interface MTU won't take effect.
> However
> +	 * at the point when this call is done we typically don't
> yet
> +	 * know which interface is going to be used
> +	 */
> +	if (val && (val < TCP_MIN_MSS || val > MAX_TCP_WINDOW))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	tcp_sk(sk)->rx_opt.user_mss = val;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   *	Socket option code for TCP.
>   */
> @@ -3883,15 +3896,7 @@ int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int
> level, int optname,
>  
>  	switch (optname) {
>  	case TCP_MAXSEG:
> -		/* Values greater than interface MTU won't take
> effect. However
> -		 * at the point when this call is done we typically
> don't yet
> -		 * know which interface is going to be used
> -		 */
> -		if (val && (val < TCP_MIN_MSS || val >
> MAX_TCP_WINDOW)) {
> -			err = -EINVAL;
> -			break;
> -		}
> -		tp->rx_opt.user_mss = val;
> +		tcp_sock_set_maxseg(sk, val);

Sorry, I forgot to set the return value here, it should be:

		err = tcp_sock_set_maxseg(sk, val);

I'll send a squash-to patch to fix this.

Thanks,
-Geliang

>  		break;
>  
>  	case TCP_NODELAY: