From: Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com
[ Upstream commit e877820877663fbae8cb9582ea597a7230b94df3 ]
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_jiffies() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec_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 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index e7409788db64..83241a56539b 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1276,9 +1276,12 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_jiffies_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp, if (write) { if (*lvalp > INT_MAX / HZ) return 1; - *valp = *negp ? -(*lvalp*HZ) : (*lvalp*HZ); + if (*negp) + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, -*lvalp * HZ); + else + WRITE_ONCE(*valp, *lvalp * HZ); } else { - int val = *valp; + int val = READ_ONCE(*valp); unsigned long lval; if (val < 0) { *negp = true;