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authorKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>2022-07-11 17:15:20 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2022-07-13 12:56:49 +0100
commit7d1025e559782b58824b36cb8ad547a69f2e4b31 (patch)
treef6b3b3bb5f284a05494be81877eadaf0d7ab68a5 /LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1
parent7dee5d7747a69aa2be41f04c6a7ecfe3ac8cdf18 (diff)
sysctl: Fix data-races in proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies().
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>
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