[PATCH 5.4 08/34] tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save.

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-08-01T11:51:46Z

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>

commit 8499a2454d9e8a55ce616ede9f9580f36fd5b0f3 upstream.

While reading sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ void tcp_update_metrics(struct sock *sk)
int m;

sk_dst_confirm(sk);
- if (net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save || !dst)
+ if (READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save) || !dst)
return;

rcu_read_lock();