This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: Fix a data-race around sysctl_somaxconn.
to the 5.19-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:
net-fix-a-data-race-around-sysctl_somaxconn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3672c22135da7cd12695b20f7d8368138a2525a7
Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 23 10:47:00 2022 -0700
net: Fix a data-race around sysctl_somaxconn.
[ Upstream commit 3c9ba81d72047f2e81bb535d42856517b613aba7 ]
While reading sysctl_somaxconn, 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/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 96300cdc06251..34102aa4ab0a6 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1801,7 +1801,7 @@ int __sys_listen(int fd, int backlog)
sock = sockfd_lookup_light(fd, &err, &fput_needed);
if (sock) {
- somaxconn = sock_net(sock->sk)->core.sysctl_somaxconn;
+ somaxconn = READ_ONCE(sock_net(sock->sk)->core.sysctl_somaxconn);
if ((unsigned int)backlog > somaxconn)
backlog = somaxconn;
