This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_max_tw_buckets.
to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tcp-fix-a-data-race-around-sysctl_max_tw_buckets.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4f408fc55de0f7482c7a89d9417f35648bc07ef9
Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jul 11 17:15:21 2022 -0700
tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_max_tw_buckets.
[ Upstream commit 6f605b57f3782114e330e108ce1903ede22ec675 ]
While reading sysctl_max_tw_buckets, 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
index 0ec501845cb3..47ccc343c9fb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ struct inet_timewait_sock *inet_twsk_alloc(const struct sock *sk,
{
struct inet_timewait_sock *tw;
- if (refcount_read(&dr->tw_refcount) - 1 >= dr->sysctl_max_tw_buckets)
+ if (refcount_read(&dr->tw_refcount) - 1 >=
+ READ_ONCE(dr->sysctl_max_tw_buckets))
return NULL;
tw = kmem_cache_alloc(sk->sk_prot_creator->twsk_prot->twsk_slab,
