[PATCH v1 net 14/15] net: Fix a data-race around netdev_budget.

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima
Date: Tue Aug 16 2022 - 04:06:54 EST


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

Fixes: 51b0bdedb8e7 ("[NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
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CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
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net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 4705e6630efa..c83e23cfc57d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6666,7 +6666,7 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
struct softnet_data *sd = this_cpu_ptr(&softnet_data);
unsigned long time_limit = jiffies +
usecs_to_jiffies(netdev_budget_usecs);
- int budget = netdev_budget;
+ int budget = READ_ONCE(netdev_budget);
LIST_HEAD(list);
LIST_HEAD(repoll);

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2.30.2