linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.15 057/167] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_max

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Message-Id: <20220719114702.095045330@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:53:09 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15 057/167] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_max_orphans.

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>

[ Upstream commit 47e6ab24e8c6e3ca10ceb5835413f401f90de4bf ]

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

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index f79b5a98888c..4ac53c8f0583 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2714,7 +2714,8 @@ static void tcp_orphan_update(struct timer_list *unused)
 
 static bool tcp_too_many_orphans(int shift)
 {
-	return READ_ONCE(tcp_orphan_cache) << shift > sysctl_tcp_max_orphans;
+	return READ_ONCE(tcp_orphan_cache) << shift >
+		READ_ONCE(sysctl_tcp_max_orphans);
 }
 
 bool tcp_check_oom(struct sock *sk, int shift)
-- 
2.35.1