From: Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com
[ Upstream commit 7d1025e559782b58824b36cb8ad547a69f2e4b31 ]
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_ms_jiffies() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies() 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 | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 357900d0cef9..79cbfd0fa3be 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1415,9 +1415,9 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
if (jif > INT_MAX) return 1; - *valp = (int)jif; + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, (int)jif); } else { - int val = *valp; + int val = READ_ONCE(*valp); unsigned long lval; if (val < 0) { *negp = true; @@ -1485,8 +1485,8 @@ int proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int write, * @ppos: the current position in the file * * Reads/writes up to table->maxlen/sizeof(unsigned int) integer - * values from/to the user buffer, treated as an ASCII string. - * The values read are assumed to be in 1/1000 seconds, and + * values from/to the user buffer, treated as an ASCII string. + * The values read are assumed to be in 1/1000 seconds, and * are converted into jiffies. * * Returns 0 on success.