Commit c8bc168f authored Sep 19, 2025 by Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Committed by Jakub Kicinski Sep 22, 2025

mptcp: pm: netlink: deprecate server-side attribute



Now that such info is in the 'flags' attribute, it is time to deprecate
the dedicated 'server-side' attribute.

It will be removed in a few versions.

Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919-net-next-mptcp-server-side-flag-v1-3-a97a5d561a8b@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

parent 3d7ae911

Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml

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		@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ attribute-sets:
		-
		name: server-side
		type: u8
		doc: "Deprecated: use 'flags'"

		operations:
		list:

net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c

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		@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int mptcp_event_created(struct sk_buff *skb,
		if (READ_ONCE(msk->pm.server_side)) {
		flags \|= MPTCP_PM_EV_FLAG_SERVER_SIDE;

		/* only set when it is the server side */
		/* Deprecated, and only set when it is the server side */
		if (nla_put_u8(skb, MPTCP_ATTR_SERVER_SIDE, 1))
		return -EMSGSIZE;
		}