This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled af_unix: Annotate data-race of net->unx.sysctl_max_dgram_qlen. 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: af_unix-annotate-data-race-of-net-unx.sysctl_max_dgr.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 0b1e52803389e7ea622fb2622bbb9eec07e6c58b Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 4 09:52:37 2024 -0700 af_unix: Annotate data-race of net->unx.sysctl_max_dgram_qlen. [ Upstream commit bd9f2d05731f6a112d0c7391a0d537bfc588dbe6 ] net->unx.sysctl_max_dgram_qlen is exposed as a sysctl knob and can be changed concurrently. Let's use READ_ONCE() in unix_create1(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c index 0611ff921421e..ec4c462a87f06 100644 --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ static struct sock *unix_create1(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int kern) sk->sk_allocation = GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT; sk->sk_write_space = unix_write_space; - sk->sk_max_ack_backlog = net->unx.sysctl_max_dgram_qlen; + sk->sk_max_ack_backlog = READ_ONCE(net->unx.sysctl_max_dgram_qlen); sk->sk_destruct = unix_sock_destructor; u = unix_sk(sk); u->inflight = 0;