This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: annotate data-races around rskq_defer_accept to the 4.14-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-rskq_defer_accept.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a1c3e3d2a356373d12abe57ecf1735ee43c11077 Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 19 21:28:54 2023 +0000 tcp: annotate data-races around rskq_defer_accept [ Upstream commit ae488c74422fb1dcd807c0201804b3b5e8a322a3 ] do_tcp_getsockopt() reads rskq_defer_accept 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/20230719212857.3943972-9-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 c93aa6542d43b..98811b5f2451a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -2729,9 +2729,9 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, case TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT: /* Translate value in seconds to number of retransmits */ - icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept = - secs_to_retrans(val, TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT / HZ, - TCP_RTO_MAX / HZ); + WRITE_ONCE(icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept, + secs_to_retrans(val, TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT / HZ, + TCP_RTO_MAX / HZ)); break; case TCP_WINDOW_CLAMP: @@ -3067,8 +3067,9 @@ static int do_tcp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, val = (val ? : net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_fin_timeout) / HZ; break; case TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT: - val = retrans_to_secs(icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept, - TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT / HZ, TCP_RTO_MAX / HZ); + val = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept); + val = retrans_to_secs(val, TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT / HZ, + TCP_RTO_MAX / HZ); break; case TCP_WINDOW_CLAMP: val = tp->window_clamp;