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tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save.
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commit 8499a24 upstream.

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

Fixes: 1da177e ("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>
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q2ven authored and gregkh committed Aug 3, 2022
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
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Expand Up @@ -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();
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