netdev - [PATCH v1 net 14/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_probe

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Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:52:04 -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>, Fan Du <fan.du@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net 14/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold.

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

Fixes: 6b58e0a5f32d ("ipv4: Use binary search to choose tcp PMTU probe_size")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
---
CC: Fan Du <fan.du@...el.com>
---
 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 7130b405da21..aa757c74dad4 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@ static int tcp_mtu_probe(struct sock *sk)
 	 * probing process by not resetting search range to its orignal.
 	 */
 	if (probe_size > tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_high) ||
-		interval < net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold) {
+	    interval < READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold)) {
 		/* Check whether enough time has elaplased for
 		 * another round of probing.
 		 */
-- 
2.30.2