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 a07652c91f2da..9d4a1d56badc8 100644
--- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
+++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ 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   =
-- 
2.43.0