This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled icmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts. 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: icmp-fix-a-data-race-around-sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_.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 35c5e9e17652e4d1bbc4b9d0a3ae8a02b1614717 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 11 17:15:24 2022 -0700 icmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts. [ Upstream commit 66484bb98ed2dfa1dda37a32411483d8311ac269 ] While reading sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader. 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/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c index 7edc8a3b1646..2c402b4671a1 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c @@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ int icmp_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) */ if ((icmph->type == ICMP_ECHO || icmph->type == ICMP_TIMESTAMP) && - net->ipv4.sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts) { + READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts)) { goto error; } if (icmph->type != ICMP_ECHO && diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c index 8987864c4479..6613351094ce 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -621,6 +621,8 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(u8), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dou8vec_minmax, + .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, + .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE }, { .procname = "icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses",