5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 14a20e5b4ad998793c5f43b0330d9e1388446cf3 ] The net.ipv6.route.flush system parameter takes a value which specifies a delay used during the flush operation for aging exception routes. The written value is however not used in the currently requested flush and instead utilized only in the next one. A problem is that ipv6_sysctl_rtcache_flush() first reads the old value of net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay into a local delay variable and then calls proc_dointvec() which actually updates the sysctl based on the provided input. Fix the problem by switching the order of the two operations. Fixes: 4990509f19e8 ("[NETNS][IPV6]: Make sysctls route per namespace.") Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607112828.30285-1-petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 65772800d0d33..08cdb38d41d86 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -6142,12 +6142,12 @@ int ipv6_sysctl_rtcache_flush(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, if (!write) return -EINVAL; - net = (struct net *)ctl->extra1; - delay = net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay; ret = proc_dointvec(ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (ret) return ret; + net = (struct net *)ctl->extra1; + delay = net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay; fib6_run_gc(delay <= 0 ? 0 : (unsigned long)delay, net, delay > 0); return 0; } -- 2.43.0