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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2009-04-27 03:23:54 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-04-27 03:23:54 -0700 |
| commit | f85ba78068ac137fe9c1f50d25405d2783d75c77 (patch) | |
| tree | 68325fa489b07db5cf7311b79e9e245ed02e5d9a /drivers/net/tun.c | |
| parent | 0456b4f8b742006c2b79fcbe6b0736aa1ad39180 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f85ba78068ac137fe9c1f50d25405d2783d75c77.tar.bz2 | |
tun: add IFF_TUN_EXCL flag to avoid opening a persistent device.
When creating a certain types of VPN, NetworkManager will first attempt
to find an available tun device by iterating through 'vpn%d' until it
finds one that isn't already busy. Then it'll set that to be persistent
and owned by the otherwise unprivileged user that the VPN dæmon itself
runs as.
There's a race condition here -- during the period where the vpn%d
device is created and we're waiting for the VPN dæmon to actually
connect and use it, if we try to create _another_ device we could end up
re-using the same one -- because trying to open it again doesn't get
-EBUSY as it would while it's _actually_ busy.
So solve this, we add an IFF_TUN_EXCL flag which causes tun_set_iff() to
fail if it would be opening an existing persistent tundevice -- so that
we can make sure we're getting an entirely _new_ device.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/tun.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/tun.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 589f0ca668d6..94622e5fb936 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -874,6 +874,8 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr) dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name); if (dev) { + if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TUN_EXCL) + return -EBUSY; if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TUN) && dev->netdev_ops == &tun_netdev_ops) tun = netdev_priv(dev); else if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TAP) && dev->netdev_ops == &tap_netdev_ops) |