From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a2e706841488f474c06e9b33f71afc947fb3bf56 ] 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 5769fe9c111ed..1d4b4d228ca0b 100644 --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int nr_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol, 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; + nr->window = READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_requested_window_size); nr->bpqext = 1; nr->state = NR_STATE_0; -- 2.43.0