linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 13/34] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack

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Message-Id: <20220801114128.544074282@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  1 Aug 2022 13:46:53 +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>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 13/34] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit.

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

commit db3815a2fa691da145cfbe834584f31ad75df9ff upstream.

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

Fixes: 282f23c6ee34 ("tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3484,7 +3484,7 @@ static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struc
 	/* Then check host-wide RFC 5961 rate limit. */
 	now = jiffies / HZ;
 	if (now != challenge_timestamp) {
-		u32 ack_limit = net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit;
+		u32 ack_limit = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit);
 		u32 half = (ack_limit + 1) >> 1;
 
 		challenge_timestamp = now;