netdev - [PATCH v1 net 04/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp

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Message-ID: <20220720165026.59712-5-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:50:15 -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>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net 04/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_frto.

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

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 8cf4fbd349ab..af376d7423d1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2175,7 +2175,7 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk)
 	 * loss recovery is underway except recurring timeout(s) on
 	 * the same SND.UNA (sec 3.2). Disable F-RTO on path MTU probing
 	 */
-	tp->frto = net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_frto &&
+	tp->frto = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_frto) &&
 		   (new_recovery || icsk->icsk_retransmits) &&
 		   !inet_csk(sk)->icsk_mtup.probe_size;
 }
-- 
2.30.2