From: Jason Xing kernelxing@tencent.com
[ Upstream commit e799299aafed417cc1f32adccb2a0e5268b3f6d5 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jason Xing kernelxing@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c index 6857510967448..678a7bbd84bf2 100644 --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static int nr_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol, nr->t2 = msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_acknowledge_delay); nr->n2 = - msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_maximum_tries); + msecs_to_jiffies(READ_ONCE(sysctl_netrom_transport_maximum_tries)); nr->t4 = msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_netrom_transport_busy_delay); nr->idle =