This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled icmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses. 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_ignore_bogus.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 66187f9864d2b129eed8c687815c2945abb285e2 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 11 17:15:25 2022 -0700 icmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses. [ Upstream commit b04f9b7e85c7d7aecbada620e8759a662af068d3 ] While reading sysctl_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses, 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 2c402b4671a1..1a061d10949f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ static bool icmp_unreach(struct sk_buff *skb) * get the other vendor to fix their kit. */ - if (!net->ipv4.sysctl_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses && + if (!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses) && inet_addr_type_dev_table(net, skb->dev, iph->daddr) == RTN_BROADCAST) { net_warn_ratelimited("%pI4 sent an invalid ICMP type %u, code %u error to a broadcast: %pI4 on %s\n", &ip_hdr(skb)->saddr, diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c index 6613351094ce..4cf2a6f560d4 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -630,6 +630,8 @@ 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_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr",