[PATCH 5.19 080/158] net: Fix a data-race around netdev_unregister_timeout_secs.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 29 2022 - 07:32:00 EST


From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 05e49cfc89e4f325eebbc62d24dd122e55f94c23 ]

While reading netdev_unregister_timeout_secs, it can be changed
concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its reader.

Fixes: 5aa3afe107d9 ("net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 19baeaf65a646..a77a979a4bf75 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10265,7 +10265,7 @@ static struct net_device *netdev_wait_allrefs_any(struct list_head *list)
return dev;

if (time_after(jiffies, warning_time +
- netdev_unregister_timeout_secs * HZ)) {
+ READ_ONCE(netdev_unregister_timeout_secs) * HZ)) {
list_for_each_entry(dev, list, todo_list) {
pr_emerg("unregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d\n",
dev->name, netdev_refcnt_read(dev));
--
2.35.1