[PATCH mptcp-next v3 4/5] mptcp: pm: use WRITE_ONCE() for the pm_type sysctl

From: Gang Yan <[email protected]>

Write pernet->pm_type with WRITE_ONCE() in proc_path_manager(), pairing
it with the READ_ONCE() readers introduced earlier in this series.

Note that updating net.mptcp.path_manager swaps the ops pointer first,
then writes the derived pm_type: a socket created in between may see
the new ops with the old pm_type. As the net.mptcp.pm_type knob is
deprecated since v6.15 and will be removed, the race is not fixed on
purpose; document it above the assignment so it does not get reported
again.

Suggested-by: Matthieu Baerts <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude:GLM5.2
Co-developed-by: Tao Cui <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Gang Yan <[email protected]>
---
 net/mptcp/ctrl.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/ctrl.c b/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
index 5a75f9b76d15..87491b961bf2 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
@@ -265,7 +265,13 @@ static int proc_path_manager(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
 				pm_type = MPTCP_PM_TYPE_KERNEL;
 			else if (strncmp(pm_name, "userspace", MPTCP_PM_NAME_MAX) == 0)
 				pm_type = MPTCP_PM_TYPE_USERSPACE;
-			pernet->pm_type = pm_type;
+
+			/* Pre-existing race: two sequential writes, a socket
+			 * created in between may see the new ops with the old
+			 * pm_type. The knob is deprecated since v6.15 and will
+			 * be removed: not fixed on purpose.
+			 */
+			WRITE_ONCE(pernet->pm_type, pm_type);
 		}
 	}
 
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