linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 net 12/12] ipv4: Fix a data-race around sysctl_fib_sync

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Message-ID: <20220706234003.66760-13-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 16:40:03 -0700
From:   Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>
CC:     Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
        Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net 12/12] ipv4: Fix a data-race around sysctl_fib_sync_mem.

While reading sysctl_fib_sync_mem, it can be changed concurrently.
So, we need to add READ_ONCE() to avoid a data-race.

Fixes: 9ab948a91b2c ("ipv4: Allow amount of dirty memory from fib resizing to be controllable")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
---
CC: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
index 2734c3af7e24..46e8a5125853 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static void tnode_free(struct key_vector *tn)
 		tn = container_of(head, struct tnode, rcu)->kv;
 	}
 
-	if (tnode_free_size >= sysctl_fib_sync_mem) {
+	if (tnode_free_size >= READ_ONCE(sysctl_fib_sync_mem)) {
 		tnode_free_size = 0;
 		synchronize_rcu();
 	}
-- 
2.30.2