This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: Fix data-races around sysctl_fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net. to the 5.15-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-data-races-around-sysctl_fb_tunnels_only_for.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ca58edd34ccbf06e44e38d9195329a00ecd761a1 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 23 10:46:56 2022 -0700 net: Fix data-races around sysctl_fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net. [ Upstream commit af67508ea6cbf0e4ea27f8120056fa2efce127dd ] While reading sysctl_fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers. Fixes: 79134e6ce2c9 ("net: do not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces") 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/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index f8d46dc62d658..f9ed41ca7ac6d 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -626,9 +626,14 @@ extern int sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net; */ static inline bool net_has_fallback_tunnels(const struct net *net) { - return !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SYSCTL) || - !sysctl_fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net || - (net == &init_net && sysctl_fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net == 1); +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SYSCTL) + int fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net = READ_ONCE(sysctl_fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net); + + return !fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net || + (net_eq(net, &init_net) && fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net == 1); +#else + return true; +#endif } static inline int netdev_queue_numa_node_read(const struct netdev_queue *q)