linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 net 03/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_max_tw

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Message-ID: <20220712001533.89927-4-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:15:21 -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>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        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>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net 03/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_max_tw_buckets.

While reading sysctl_max_tw_buckets, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
---
 net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
index 0ec501845cb3..47ccc343c9fb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ struct inet_timewait_sock *inet_twsk_alloc(const struct sock *sk,
 {
 	struct inet_timewait_sock *tw;
 
-	if (refcount_read(&dr->tw_refcount) - 1 >= dr->sysctl_max_tw_buckets)
+	if (refcount_read(&dr->tw_refcount) - 1 >=
+	    READ_ONCE(dr->sysctl_max_tw_buckets))
 		return NULL;
 
 	tw = kmem_cache_alloc(sk->sk_prot_creator->twsk_prot->twsk_slab,
-- 
2.30.2