netdev - [PATCH v1 net 13/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_mtu_probe

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Message-ID: <20220713205205.15735-14-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:52:03 -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>
CC:     Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
        Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Josh Hunt <johunt@...mai.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net 13/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_mtu_probe_floor.

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

Fixes: c04b79b6cfd7 ("tcp: add new tcp_mtu_probe_floor sysctl")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
---
CC: Josh Hunt <johunt@...mai.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index 39107bb730b0..4f3b9ab222b6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static void tcp_mtu_probing(struct inet_connection_sock *icsk, struct sock *sk)
 	} else {
 		mss = tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low) >> 1;
 		mss = min(READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_base_mss), mss);
-		mss = max(mss, net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_mtu_probe_floor);
+		mss = max(mss, READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_mtu_probe_floor));
 		mss = max(mss, READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_min_snd_mss));
 		icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low = tcp_mss_to_mtu(sk, mss);
 	}
-- 
2.30.2