This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec_jiffies(). 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_jiffies.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 1ec5abdf8a4c9701c02364ea350a566dd4181b3f Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 6 16:39:57 2022 -0700 sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec_jiffies(). [ Upstream commit e877820877663fbae8cb9582ea597a7230b94df3 ] 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_jiffies() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec_jiffies() 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 7a8899f237a2..878b1122cb89 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1245,9 +1245,12 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_jiffies_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp, if (write) { if (*lvalp > INT_MAX / HZ) return 1; - *valp = *negp ? -(*lvalp*HZ) : (*lvalp*HZ); + if (*negp) + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, -*lvalp * HZ); + else + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, *lvalp * HZ); } else { - int val = *valp; + int val = READ_ONCE(*valp); unsigned long lval; if (val < 0) { *negp = true;