linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 17/32] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_invalid

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Message-Id: <20220809175513.631737701@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue,  9 Aug 2022 20:00:08 +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 4.19 17/32] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit.

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

[ Upstream commit 2afdbe7b8de84c28e219073a6661080e1b3ded48 ]

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

Fixes: 032ee4236954 ("tcp: helpers to mitigate ACK loops by rate-limiting out-of-window dupacks")
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_input.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 04788bd5e82c..38412d93400a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3420,7 +3420,8 @@ static bool __tcp_oow_rate_limited(struct net *net, int mib_idx,
 	if (*last_oow_ack_time) {
 		s32 elapsed = (s32)(tcp_jiffies32 - *last_oow_ack_time);
 
-		if (0 <= elapsed && elapsed < net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit) {
+		if (0 <= elapsed &&
+		    elapsed < READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit)) {
 			NET_INC_STATS(net, mib_idx);
 			return true;	/* rate-limited: don't send yet! */
 		}
-- 
2.35.1