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_no_activity_timeout to the 5.4-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-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4e466e059a9bb0b5f83be4c3218dad05cc082702 Author: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 4 16:20:43 2024 +0800 netrom: Fix a data-race around sysctl_netrom_transport_no_activity_timeout [ Upstream commit f99b494b40431f0ca416859f2345746199398e2b ] 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 bf29260f6e52a..e25bb0fe6d13c 100644 --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static int nr_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol, nr->t4 = msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_busy_delay)); nr->idle = - msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_no_activity_timeout); + msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_no_activity_timeout)); nr->window = READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_requested_window_size); nr->bpqext = 1;