This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nexthop: Fix data-races around nexthop_compat_mode. 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: nexthop-fix-data-races-around-nexthop_compat_mode.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 f2f730324c360139e317c1bb2aeb90cb3d7e5c3e Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 11 17:15:33 2022 -0700 nexthop: Fix data-races around nexthop_compat_mode. [ Upstream commit bdf00bf24bef9be1ca641a6390fd5487873e0d2e ] While reading nexthop_compat_mode, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers. Fixes: 4f80116d3df3 ("net: ipv4: add sysctl for nexthop api compatibility mode") 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/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c index 1c4fef385ef6..720f65f7bd0b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c @@ -1811,7 +1811,7 @@ int fib_dump_info(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event, goto nla_put_failure; if (nexthop_is_blackhole(fi->nh)) rtm->rtm_type = RTN_BLACKHOLE; - if (!fi->fib_net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode) + if (!READ_ONCE(fi->fib_net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode)) goto offload; } diff --git a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c index e459a391e607..853a75a8fbaf 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c +++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c @@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ static void __remove_nexthop_fib(struct net *net, struct nexthop *nh) /* __ip6_del_rt does a release, so do a hold here */ fib6_info_hold(f6i); ipv6_stub->ip6_del_rt(net, f6i, - !net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode); + !READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode)); } } @@ -2361,7 +2361,8 @@ static int insert_nexthop(struct net *net, struct nexthop *new_nh, if (!rc) { nh_base_seq_inc(net); nexthop_notify(RTM_NEWNEXTHOP, new_nh, &cfg->nlinfo); - if (replace_notify && net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode) + if (replace_notify && + READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode)) nexthop_replace_notify(net, new_nh, &cfg->nlinfo); } diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 83786de847ab..a87b96a256af 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -5737,7 +5737,7 @@ static int rt6_fill_node(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, if (nexthop_is_blackhole(rt->nh)) rtm->rtm_type = RTN_BLACKHOLE; - if (net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode && + if (READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode) && rt6_fill_node_nexthop(skb, rt->nh, &nh_flags) < 0) goto nla_put_failure;