This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: annotate data-races around tp->linger2 to the 5.4-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-annotate-data-races-around-tp-linger2.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5227a8526cd7b418601ee6b5cf385be0030c4937 Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 19 21:28:53 2023 +0000 tcp: annotate data-races around tp->linger2 [ Upstream commit 9df5335ca974e688389c875546e5819778a80d59 ] do_tcp_getsockopt() reads tp->linger2 while another cpu might change its value. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719212857.3943972-8-edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index c6c73b9407098..b9475fcaa6c4f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -3066,11 +3066,11 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, case TCP_LINGER2: if (val < 0) - tp->linger2 = -1; + WRITE_ONCE(tp->linger2, -1); else if (val > TCP_FIN_TIMEOUT_MAX / HZ) - tp->linger2 = TCP_FIN_TIMEOUT_MAX; + WRITE_ONCE(tp->linger2, TCP_FIN_TIMEOUT_MAX); else - tp->linger2 = val * HZ; + WRITE_ONCE(tp->linger2, val * HZ); break; case TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT: @@ -3476,7 +3476,7 @@ static int do_tcp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, val = icsk->icsk_syn_retries ? : net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_retries; break; case TCP_LINGER2: - val = tp->linger2; + val = READ_ONCE(tp->linger2); if (val >= 0) val = (val ? : READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_fin_timeout)) / HZ; break;