This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled igmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_igmp_max_memberships. 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: igmp-fix-a-data-race-around-sysctl_igmp_max_membersh.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 0f5f36fc7f4cd8086af89611acde3d35beee8e26 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 15 10:17:42 2022 -0700 igmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_igmp_max_memberships. [ Upstream commit 6305d821e3b9b5379d348528e5b5faf316383bc2 ] While reading sysctl_igmp_max_memberships, 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/igmp.c b/net/ipv4/igmp.c index 0bde3774505f..d07d290bf0b9 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/igmp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/igmp.c @@ -2197,7 +2197,7 @@ static int __ip_mc_join_group(struct sock *sk, struct ip_mreqn *imr, count++; } err = -ENOBUFS; - if (count >= net->ipv4.sysctl_igmp_max_memberships) + if (count >= READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_igmp_max_memberships)) goto done; iml = sock_kmalloc(sk, sizeof(*iml), GFP_KERNEL); if (!iml)