[PATCH net] net/smc: fix limit_smc_hs sysctl on big-endian architecture

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From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-28 22:54:07
Also in: linux-rdma, linux-s390
Subsystem: networking [general], shared memory communications (smc) sockets, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, D. Wythe, Dust Li, Sidraya Jayagond, Mahanta Jambigi, Linus Torvalds

net->smc.limit_smc_hs is a bool, but its sysctl entry uses
proc_dointvec_minmax() with .maxlen = sizeof(int), so the handler
accesses four bytes at the address of a one-byte field.

On little-endian this works with the extra bytes being written in struct
padding. On big-endian (tested on s390x) the bool sits at the most
significant byte of the int therefore the bool stays false and the "1"
goes into padding. The sysctl reads back 1 but SMC sockets created
afterwards see limit_smc_hs as disabled.

Fix this by using proc_dobool() handler and adjust the maxlen to the
right value.

Fixes: f8406a2fd279 ("net/smc: add sysctl for smc_limit_hs")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <redacted>
---
Note: After reviewing another patch fixing sysctls, I decided to
review more of them and found this. I have tested the fix on a s390x
system.
---
 net/smc/smc_sysctl.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_sysctl.c b/net/smc/smc_sysctl.c
index 09dad48337f6..f58cf256f61a 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_sysctl.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_sysctl.c
@@ -160,11 +160,9 @@ static const struct ctl_table smc_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "limit_smc_hs",
 		.data		= &init_net.smc.limit_smc_hs,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(bool),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
-		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
-		.extra2		= SYSCTL_ONE,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dobool,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "smcr_max_send_wr",
-- 
2.56.0
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