linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 08/37] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_probe

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Message-Id: <20220727161001.198867753@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:10:34 +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 4.14 08/37] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_probe_interval.

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

[ Upstream commit 2a85388f1d94a9f8b5a529118a2c5eaa0520d85c ]

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

Fixes: 05cbc0db03e8 ("ipv4: Create probe timer for tcp PMTU as per RFC4821")
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_output.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 8ac23e8439c3..5e9b7dfd9d2d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@ static inline void tcp_mtu_check_reprobe(struct sock *sk)
 	u32 interval;
 	s32 delta;
 
-	interval = net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_interval;
+	interval = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_interval);
 	delta = tcp_jiffies32 - icsk->icsk_mtup.probe_timestamp;
 	if (unlikely(delta >= interval * HZ)) {
 		int mss = tcp_current_mss(sk);
-- 
2.35.1