This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sysctl: Fix data races in proc_douintvec().
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_douintvec.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 ad1caaff9f0668d52985908887491e119c0ecf02
Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 6 16:39:53 2022 -0700
sysctl: Fix data races in proc_douintvec().
[ Upstream commit 4762b532ec9539755aab61445d5da6e1926ccb99 ]
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_douintvec() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_douintvec()
itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on
the other subsystem's side.
Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
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 27b3a55dc4bd..6c61e2992fed 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -544,9 +544,9 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(unsigned long *lvalp,
if (write) {
if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
- *valp = *lvalp;
+ WRITE_ONCE(*valp, *lvalp);
} else {
- unsigned int val = *valp;
+ unsigned int val = READ_ONCE(*valp);
*lvalp = (unsigned long)val;
}
return 0;
