mptcp: sockopt: info: stop early if no buffer

Up to recently, it has been recommended to use getsockopt(MPTCP_INFO) to
check if a fallback to TCP happened, or if the client requested to use
MPTCP.

In this case, the userspace app is only interested by the returned value
of the getsocktop() call, and can then give 0 for the option length, and
NULL for the buffer address. An easy optimisation is then to stop early,
and avoid filling a local buffer -- which now requires two different
locks -- if it is not needed.

Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

Author: matttbe

net/mptcp/sockopt.c

@@ -999,6 +999,10 @@ static int mptcp_getsockopt_info(struct mptcp_sock *msk, char __user *optval, in
 	if (get_user(len, optlen))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	/* When used only to check if a fallback to TCP happened. */
+	if (len == 0)
+		return 0;
+
 	len = min_t(unsigned int, len, sizeof(struct mptcp_info));
 
 	mptcp_diag_fill_info(msk, &m_info);