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

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Message-ID: <20220720165026.59712-16-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:50:26 -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>, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net 15/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit.

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>
---
CC: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
---
 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 96d11f8ab729..c799f39cb774 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3581,7 +3581,8 @@ 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! */
 		}
-- 
2.30.2