This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns. 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_comp_sack_dela.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 c49e789b7d79b86dd80db24d79c0ba77a513ead5 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 22 11:22:01 2022 -0700 tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns. [ Upstream commit 4866b2b0f7672b6d760c4b8ece6fb56f965dcc8a ] While reading sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader. Fixes: 6d82aa242092 ("tcp: add tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns sysctl") 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 38412d93400a..b71866aba426 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -5262,7 +5262,8 @@ static void __tcp_ack_snd_check(struct sock *sk, int ofo_possible) if (tp->srtt_us && tp->srtt_us < rtt) rtt = tp->srtt_us; - delay = min_t(unsigned long, sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns, + delay = min_t(unsigned long, + READ_ONCE(sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns), rtt * (NSEC_PER_USEC >> 3)/20); sock_hold(sk); hrtimer_start(&tp->compressed_ack_timer, ns_to_ktime(delay),