This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sysctl: Fix data-races in proc_dointvec_ms_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_ms_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 7ab4dde94c41fb9ae6a74956dae8b2534b7b927e Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 11 17:15:20 2022 -0700 sysctl: Fix data-races in proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies(). [ Upstream commit 7d1025e559782b58824b36cb8ad547a69f2e4b31 ] 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_ms_jiffies() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec_ms_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 54ec36e69907..f165ea67dd33 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1296,9 +1296,9 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp, if (jif > INT_MAX) return 1; - *valp = (int)jif; + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, (int)jif); } else { - int val = *valp; + int val = READ_ONCE(*valp); unsigned long lval; if (val < 0) { *negp = true; @@ -1366,8 +1366,8 @@ int proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int write, * @ppos: the current position in the file * * Reads/writes up to table->maxlen/sizeof(unsigned int) integer - * values from/to the user buffer, treated as an ASCII string. - * The values read are assumed to be in 1/1000 seconds, and + * values from/to the user buffer, treated as an ASCII string. + * The values read are assumed to be in 1/1000 seconds, and * are converted into jiffies. * * Returns 0 on success.