linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.18 070/231] sysctl: Fix data races in proc

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Message-Id: <20220719114720.559405316@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:52:35 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.18 070/231] sysctl: Fix data races in proc_douintvec().

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>

[ Upstream commit 4762b532ec9539755aab61445d5da6e1926ccb99 ]

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_douintvec() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side.  For now, proc_douintvec()
itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on
the other subsystem's side.

Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 27b3a55dc4bd..6c61e2992fed 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -544,9 +544,9 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(unsigned long *lvalp,
 	if (write) {
 		if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		*valp = *lvalp;
+		WRITE_ONCE(*valp, *lvalp);
 	} else {
-		unsigned int val = *valp;
+		unsigned int val = READ_ONCE(*valp);
 		*lvalp = (unsigned long)val;
 	}
 	return 0;
-- 
2.35.1