From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	=?UTF-8?q?Ilpo=20J=C3=A4rvinen?= <ij@kernel.org>,
	Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12 138/220] tcp: Pass flags to __tcp_send_ack
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:55:28 +0200
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6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 9866884ce8ef25338c5b33cbb97c2b5d92088528 ]

Accurate ECN needs to send custom flags to handle IP-ECN
field reflection during handshake.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stable-dep-of: a28c4fcbf774 ("tcp: challenge ACK for non-exact RST in SYN-RECEIVED")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/net/tcp.h     |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/bpf_tcp_ca.c |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.h  |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    6 +++---
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ void tcp_send_active_reset(struct sock *
 			   enum sk_rst_reason reason);
 int tcp_send_synack(struct sock *);
 void tcp_push_one(struct sock *, unsigned int mss_now);
-void __tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 rcv_nxt);
+void __tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 rcv_nxt, u16 flags);
 void tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk);
 void tcp_send_delayed_ack(struct sock *sk);
 void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk);
--- a/net/ipv4/bpf_tcp_ca.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/bpf_tcp_ca.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int bpf_tcp_ca_btf_struct_access(
 BPF_CALL_2(bpf_tcp_send_ack, struct tcp_sock *, tp, u32, rcv_nxt)
 {
 	/* bpf_tcp_ca prog cannot have NULL tp */
-	__tcp_send_ack((struct sock *)tp, rcv_nxt);
+	__tcp_send_ack((struct sock *)tp, rcv_nxt, 0);
 	return 0;
 }
 
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.h
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static inline void dctcp_ece_ack_update(
 		 */
 		if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_TIMER) {
 			dctcp_ece_ack_cwr(sk, *ce_state);
-			__tcp_send_ack(sk, *prior_rcv_nxt);
+			__tcp_send_ack(sk, *prior_rcv_nxt, 0);
 		}
 		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending |= ICSK_ACK_NOW;
 	}
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -4250,7 +4250,7 @@ void tcp_send_delayed_ack(struct sock *s
 }
 
 /* This routine sends an ack and also updates the window. */
-void __tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 rcv_nxt)
+void __tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 rcv_nxt, u16 flags)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *buff;
 
@@ -4279,7 +4279,7 @@ void __tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk, u32
 
 	/* Reserve space for headers and prepare control bits. */
 	skb_reserve(buff, MAX_TCP_HEADER);
-	tcp_init_nondata_skb(buff, tcp_acceptable_seq(sk), TCPHDR_ACK);
+	tcp_init_nondata_skb(buff, tcp_acceptable_seq(sk), TCPHDR_ACK | flags);
 
 	/* We do not want pure acks influencing TCP Small Queues or fq/pacing
 	 * too much.
@@ -4294,7 +4294,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__tcp_send_ack);
 
 void tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk)
 {
-	__tcp_send_ack(sk, tcp_sk(sk)->rcv_nxt);
+	__tcp_send_ack(sk, tcp_sk(sk)->rcv_nxt, 0);
 }
 
 /* This routine sends a packet with an out of date sequence