This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
inetpeer: Fix data-races around sysctl.
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:
inetpeer-fix-data-races-around-sysctl.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 de6d026dc57e583bb3ead4e908e4737702715ee8
Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 6 16:39:59 2022 -0700
inetpeer: Fix data-races around sysctl.
[ Upstream commit 3d32edf1f3c38d3301f6434e56316f293466d7fb ]
While reading inetpeer sysctl variables, they can be changed
concurrently. So, we need to add READ_ONCE() to avoid data-races.
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/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
index da21dfce24d7..e9fed83e9b3c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
@@ -141,16 +141,20 @@ static void inet_peer_gc(struct inet_peer_base *base,
struct inet_peer *gc_stack[],
unsigned int gc_cnt)
{
+ int peer_threshold, peer_maxttl, peer_minttl;
struct inet_peer *p;
__u32 delta, ttl;
int i;
- if (base->total >= inet_peer_threshold)
+ peer_threshold = READ_ONCE(inet_peer_threshold);
+ peer_maxttl = READ_ONCE(inet_peer_maxttl);
+ peer_minttl = READ_ONCE(inet_peer_minttl);
+
+ if (base->total >= peer_threshold)
ttl = 0; /* be aggressive */
else
- ttl = inet_peer_maxttl
- - (inet_peer_maxttl - inet_peer_minttl) / HZ *
- base->total / inet_peer_threshold * HZ;
+ ttl = peer_maxttl - (peer_maxttl - peer_minttl) / HZ *
+ base->total / peer_threshold * HZ;
for (i = 0; i < gc_cnt; i++) {
p = gc_stack[i];
