From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 43547d8699439a67b78d6bb39015113f7aa360fd ] 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 5a5cca18ae0c6..76d66eb0de255 100644 --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static int nr_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol, nr->n2 = msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_maximum_tries)); nr->t4 = - msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_busy_delay); + msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_busy_delay)); nr->idle = msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_no_activity_timeout); nr->window = sysctl_netrom_transport_requested_window_size; -- 2.43.0