This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save. to the 5.15-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_tcp_nometrics_save.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 72a1d5ff658140f598f89c99c368e997e4dd6ae7 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 20 09:50:16 2022 -0700 tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save. [ Upstream commit 8499a2454d9e8a55ce616ede9f9580f36fd5b0f3 ] While reading sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save, 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/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c index a501150deaa3..9dcc418a26f2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ void tcp_update_metrics(struct sock *sk) int m; sk_dst_confirm(sk); - if (net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save || !dst) + if (READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save) || !dst) return; rcu_read_lock();