netdev - [PATCH v1 net 5/7] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_comp_sack

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Message-ID: <20220722182205.96838-6-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:22:03 -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>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net 5/7] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_nr.

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

Fixes: 9c21d2fc41c0 ("tcp: add tcp_comp_sack_nr sysctl")
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 a4d8851d83ff..b1637990d570 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5521,7 +5521,7 @@ static void __tcp_ack_snd_check(struct sock *sk, int ofo_possible)
 	}
 
 	if (!tcp_is_sack(tp) ||
-	    tp->compressed_ack >= sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_nr)
+	    tp->compressed_ack >= READ_ONCE(sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_nr))
 		goto send_now;
 
 	if (tp->compressed_ack_rcv_nxt != tp->rcv_nxt) {
-- 
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