This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mptcp: fix data race around msk->first access to the 6.3-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: mptcp-fix-data-race-around-msk-first-access.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0545614d0c7d286546c0bc5eca67615845d493d3 Author: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 31 12:37:06 2023 -0700 mptcp: fix data race around msk->first access [ Upstream commit 1b1b43ee7a208096ecd79e626f2fc90d4a321111 ] The first subflow socket is accessed outside the msk socket lock by mptcp_subflow_fail(), we need to annotate each write access with WRITE_ONCE, but a few spots still lacks it. Fixes: 76a13b315709 ("mptcp: invoke MP_FAIL response when needed") Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c index 8d0c03091c409..64d4910e337ea 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int __mptcp_socket_create(struct mptcp_sock *msk) if (err) return err; - msk->first = ssock->sk; + WRITE_ONCE(msk->first, ssock->sk); WRITE_ONCE(msk->subflow, ssock); subflow = mptcp_subflow_ctx(ssock->sk); list_add(&subflow->node, &msk->conn_list); @@ -2391,7 +2391,7 @@ static void __mptcp_close_ssk(struct sock *sk, struct sock *ssk, sock_put(ssk); if (ssk == msk->first) - msk->first = NULL; + WRITE_ONCE(msk->first, NULL); out: if (ssk == msk->last_snd) @@ -2692,7 +2692,7 @@ static int __mptcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk) WRITE_ONCE(msk->rmem_released, 0); msk->timer_ival = TCP_RTO_MIN; - msk->first = NULL; + WRITE_ONCE(msk->first, NULL); inet_csk(sk)->icsk_sync_mss = mptcp_sync_mss; WRITE_ONCE(msk->csum_enabled, mptcp_is_checksum_enabled(sock_net(sk))); WRITE_ONCE(msk->allow_infinite_fallback, true);