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[v1,net,09/15] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_timeouts.

Message ID 20220718172653.22111-10-kuniyu@amazon.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 7c6f2a86ca590d5187a073d987e9599985fb1c7c
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series sysctl: Fix data-races around ipv4_net_table (Round 4). | expand

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Commit Message

Kuniyuki Iwashima July 18, 2022, 5:26 p.m. UTC
While reading sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_timeouts, it can be changed
concurrently.  Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 36e31b0af587 ("net: TCP thin linear timeouts")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
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CC: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
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 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index ec5277becc6a..50bba370486e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@  void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
 	 * linear-timeout retransmissions into a black hole
 	 */
 	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED &&
-	    (tp->thin_lto || net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_timeouts) &&
+	    (tp->thin_lto || READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_timeouts)) &&
 	    tcp_stream_is_thin(tp) &&
 	    icsk->icsk_retransmits <= TCP_THIN_LINEAR_RETRIES) {
 		icsk->icsk_backoff = 0;