From: Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com
[ Upstream commit 1f1be04b4d48a2475ea1aab46a99221bfc5c0968 ]
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_dointvec() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/sysctl.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 0586047f7323..11f0714273ab 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -566,14 +566,14 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp, if (*negp) { if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) INT_MAX + 1) return -EINVAL; - *valp = -*lvalp; + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, -*lvalp); } else { if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) INT_MAX) return -EINVAL; - *valp = *lvalp; + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, *lvalp); } } else { - int val = *valp; + int val = READ_ONCE(*valp); if (val < 0) { *negp = true; *lvalp = -(unsigned long)val;