This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netrom: Fix a data-race around sysctl_netrom_transport_acknowledge_delay 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: netrom-fix-a-data-race-around-sysctl_netrom_transpor.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 381ce3a5d8092aa71e5d82e5690ba42194a5c64d Author: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 4 16:20:40 2024 +0800 netrom: Fix a data-race around sysctl_netrom_transport_acknowledge_delay [ Upstream commit 806f462ba9029d41aadf8ec93f2f99c5305deada ] We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the value can be changed concurrently. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c index 678a7bbd84bf2..5a5cca18ae0c6 100644 --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static int nr_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol, nr->t1 = msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_timeout)); nr->t2 = - msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_acknowledge_delay); + msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_acknowledge_delay)); nr->n2 = msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_maximum_tries)); nr->t4 =