mptcp: Skip unnecessary skb extension allocation for bare acks

Bare TCP ack skbs are freed right after MPTCP sees them, so the work to
allocate, zero, and populate the MPTCP skb extension is wasted. Detect
these skbs and do not add skb extensions to them.

Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: mjmartineau

net/mptcp/options.c

@@ -868,15 +868,18 @@ void mptcp_incoming_options(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (mp_opt.use_ack)
 		update_una(msk, &mp_opt);
 
-	/* Zero-length packets, like bare ACKs carrying a DATA_FIN, are
-	 * dropped by the caller and not propagated to the MPTCP layer.
-	 * Copy the DATA_FIN information now.
+	/* Zero-data-length packets are dropped by the caller and not
+	 * propagated to the MPTCP layer, so the skb extension does not
+	 * need to be allocated or populated. DATA_FIN information, if
+	 * present, needs to be updated here before the skb is freed.
 	 */
 	if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq == TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq) {
 		if (mp_opt.data_fin && mp_opt.data_len == 1 &&
 		    mptcp_update_rcv_data_fin(msk, mp_opt.data_seq) &&
 		    schedule_work(&msk->work))
 			sock_hold(subflow->conn);
+
+		return;
 	}
 
 	mpext = skb_ext_add(skb, SKB_EXT_MPTCP);