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Commit 1f1be04b authored by Kuniyuki Iwashima's avatar Kuniyuki Iwashima Committed by David S. Miller
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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: 1da177e4

 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 820b8963
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