4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Gao Feng <f...@ikuai8.com>


[ Upstream commit c48367427a39ea0b85c7cf018fe4256627abfd9e ]

Because sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale could be changed any time, so there
is one race in tcp_win_from_space.
For example,
1.sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale<=0 (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is negative now)
2.space>>(-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale) (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is postive now)

As a result, tcp_win_from_space returns 0. It is unexpected.

Certainly if the compiler put the sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale into one
register firstly, then use the register directly, it would be ok.
But we could not depend on the compiler behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <f...@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/net/tcp.h |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1199,9 +1199,11 @@ void tcp_select_initial_window(int __spa
 
 static inline int tcp_win_from_space(int space)
 {
-       return sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale<=0 ?
-               (space>>(-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale)) :
-               space - (space>>sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
+       int tcp_adv_win_scale = sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale;
+
+       return tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0 ?
+               (space>>(-tcp_adv_win_scale)) :
+               space - (space>>tcp_adv_win_scale);
 }
 
 /* Note: caller must be prepared to deal with negative returns */


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