This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: annotate data-races around tp->notsent_lowat 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-annotate-data-races-around-tp-notsent_lowat.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 f3ce1b988ff336ba962b41f0b9a23603d714b5de Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 19 21:28:55 2023 +0000 tcp: annotate data-races around tp->notsent_lowat [ Upstream commit 1aeb87bc1440c5447a7fa2d6e3c2cca52cbd206b ] tp->notsent_lowat can be read locklessly from do_tcp_getsockopt() and tcp_poll(). Fixes: c9bee3b7fdec ("tcp: TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719212857.3943972-10-edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 22cca858f2678..c6c48409e7b42 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -1883,7 +1883,11 @@ void __tcp_v4_send_check(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 saddr, __be32 daddr); static inline u32 tcp_notsent_lowat(const struct tcp_sock *tp) { struct net *net = sock_net((struct sock *)tp); - return tp->notsent_lowat ?: READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat); + u32 val; + + val = READ_ONCE(tp->notsent_lowat); + + return val ?: READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat); } /* @wake is one when sk_stream_write_space() calls us. diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 853a33bf8863e..373bf3d3be592 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -3099,7 +3099,7 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, err = tcp_repair_set_window(tp, optval, optlen); break; case TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT: - tp->notsent_lowat = val; + WRITE_ONCE(tp->notsent_lowat, val); sk->sk_write_space(sk); break; case TCP_INQ: @@ -3569,7 +3569,7 @@ static int do_tcp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, val = tcp_time_stamp_raw() + tp->tsoffset; break; case TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT: - val = tp->notsent_lowat; + val = READ_ONCE(tp->notsent_lowat); break; case TCP_INQ: val = tp->recvmsg_inq;