This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit.
to the 4.19-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_invalid_rateli.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 67a114439496316dcbf344a5e13f28ed70e1b6de
Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 20 09:50:26 2022 -0700
tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit.
[ Upstream commit 2afdbe7b8de84c28e219073a6661080e1b3ded48 ]
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 04788bd5e82c..38412d93400a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3420,7 +3420,8 @@ 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! */
}
