From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2d3b559df3ed39258737789aae2ae7973d205bc1 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_douintvec_minmax() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_douintvec_minmax() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: 61d9b56a8920 ("sysctl: add unsigned int range support") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 1800907da60c..df6090ba1d0b 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv(unsigned long *lvalp, (param->max && *param->max < tmp)) return -ERANGE; - *valp = tmp; + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, tmp); } return 0; -- 2.35.1