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authorKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>2022-07-06 16:39:52 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2022-07-08 12:10:32 +0100
commit1f1be04b4d48a2475ea1aab46a99221bfc5c0968 (patch)
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parent820b8963adaea34a87abbecb906d1f54c0aabfb7 (diff)
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sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec().
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() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec() 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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