From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 60a7a152abd494ed4f69098cf0f322e6bb140612 ] 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> --- net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c index 96e91ab71573c..d8a25f614c500 100644 --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static int nr_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol, nr_init_timers(sk); nr->t1 = - msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_timeout); + msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_timeout)); nr->t2 = msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_acknowledge_delay); nr->n2 = -- 2.43.0