[PATCH net-next v2 2/4] tcp: add tcp_sock_set_maxseg

[Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)]

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>
---
Notes:
- v2: Set the return value of tcp_sock_set_maxseg() to err.
---
 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..57e478bfaef20369f5dba1cff540e52c9302ebf4 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..71a956fbfc5533224ee00e792de2cfdccd4d40aa 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;
+		err = tcp_sock_set_maxseg(sk, val);
 		break;
 
 	case TCP_NODELAY:

-- 
2.50.0