This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp_metrics: annotate data-races around tm->tcpm_lock
to the 6.1-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_metrics-annotate-data-races-around-tm-tcpm_lock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 311b7f8f25536a01c045913c8bbd741ce799b0f2
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 2 13:14:57 2023 +0000
tcp_metrics: annotate data-races around tm->tcpm_lock
[ Upstream commit 285ce119a3c6c4502585936650143e54c8692788 ]
tm->tcpm_lock can be read or written locklessly.
Add needed READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() to document this.
Fixes: 51c5d0c4b169 ("tcp: Maintain dynamic metrics in local cache.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802131500.1478140-4-edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
index 8386165887963..131fa30049691 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ static inline struct net *tm_net(struct tcp_metrics_block *tm)
static bool tcp_metric_locked(struct tcp_metrics_block *tm,
enum tcp_metric_index idx)
{
- return tm->tcpm_lock & (1 << idx);
+ /* Paired with WRITE_ONCE() in tcpm_suck_dst() */
+ return READ_ONCE(tm->tcpm_lock) & (1 << idx);
}
static u32 tcp_metric_get(struct tcp_metrics_block *tm,
@@ -110,7 +111,8 @@ static void tcpm_suck_dst(struct tcp_metrics_block *tm,
val |= 1 << TCP_METRIC_CWND;
if (dst_metric_locked(dst, RTAX_REORDERING))
val |= 1 << TCP_METRIC_REORDERING;
- tm->tcpm_lock = val;
+ /* Paired with READ_ONCE() in tcp_metric_locked() */
+ WRITE_ONCE(tm->tcpm_lock, val);
msval = dst_metric_raw(dst, RTAX_RTT);
tm->tcpm_vals[TCP_METRIC_RTT] = msval * USEC_PER_MSEC;
