This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec().
to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sysctl-fix-data-races-in-proc_dointvec.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8dacdd65cebdd87ea541e368ee00f504dcb6a6f8
Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 6 16:39:52 2022 -0700
sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec().
[ Upstream commit 1f1be04b4d48a2475ea1aab46a99221bfc5c0968 ]
A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance
of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to
avoid load/store-tearing.
This patch changes proc_dointvec() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec()
itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on
the other subsystem's side.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 830aaf8ca08e..27b3a55dc4bd 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -518,14 +518,14 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
if (*negp) {
if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) INT_MAX + 1)
return -EINVAL;
- *valp = -*lvalp;
+ WRITE_ONCE(*valp, -*lvalp);
} else {
if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) INT_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
- *valp = *lvalp;
+ WRITE_ONCE(*valp, *lvalp);
}
} else {
- int val = *valp;
+ int val = READ_ONCE(*valp);
if (val < 0) {
*negp = true;
*lvalp = -(unsigned long)val;
