Patch "tcp: correct memory barrier usage in tcp_check_space()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: correct memory barrier usage in tcp_check_space()

to the 4.4-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-correct-memory-barrier-usage-in-tcp_check_space.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Dec  6 16:43:17 CET 2017
From: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:49:41 -0500
Subject: tcp: correct memory barrier usage in tcp_check_space()

From: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>


[ Upstream commit 56d806222ace4c3aeae516cd7a855340fb2839d8 ]

sock_reset_flag() maps to __clear_bit() not the atomic version clear_bit().
Thus, we need smp_mb(), smp_mb__after_atomic() is not sufficient.

Fixes: 3c7151275c0c ("tcp: add memory barriers to write space paths")
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -4942,7 +4942,7 @@ static void tcp_check_space(struct sock
 	if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK)) {
 		sock_reset_flag(sk, SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK);
 		/* pairs with tcp_poll() */
-		smp_mb__after_atomic();
+		smp_mb();
 		if (sk->sk_socket &&
 		    test_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &sk->sk_socket->flags))
 			tcp_new_space(sk);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jbaron@akamai.com are

queue-4.4/tcp-correct-memory-barrier-usage-in-tcp_check_space.patch