@@ -6956,10 +6956,12 @@ int tcp_conn_request(struct request_sock_ops *rsk_ops,
tcp_rsk(req)->ts_off = af_ops->init_ts_off(net, skb);
if (!want_cookie && !isn) {
+ int max_syn_backlog = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_max_syn_backlog);
+
/* Kill the following clause, if you dislike this way. */
if (!syncookies &&
- (net->ipv4.sysctl_max_syn_backlog - inet_csk_reqsk_queue_len(sk) <
- (net->ipv4.sysctl_max_syn_backlog >> 2)) &&
+ (max_syn_backlog - inet_csk_reqsk_queue_len(sk) <
+ (max_syn_backlog >> 2)) &&
!tcp_peer_is_proven(req, dst)) {
/* Without syncookies last quarter of
* backlog is filled with destinations,
While reading sysctl_max_syn_backlog, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)