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authorKim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com>2008-02-29 12:26:21 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-02-29 12:26:21 -0800
commit401023710d73aaef1191ab4d6a79d39c51add828 (patch)
treea19260d86b6fa1cdb27a368a3d77335cdfb27dbf /drivers/net
parent459eea74104ad85c30e17541c2b30d776445e985 (diff)
downloadlinux-401023710d73aaef1191ab4d6a79d39c51add828.tar.bz2
[TUN]: Fix RTNL-locking in tun/tap driver
Current tun/tap driver sets also net device's hw address when asked to change character device's hw address. This is a good idea, but it misses RTLN-locking, resulting following error message in 2.6.25-rc3's inetdev_event() function: RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/devinet.c (1050) Attached patch fixes this problem. Signed-off-by: Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tun.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 038c1ef94d2e..7b816a032957 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -663,7 +663,11 @@ static int tun_chr_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
case SIOCSIFHWADDR:
{
/* try to set the actual net device's hw address */
- int ret = dev_set_mac_address(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr);
+ int ret;
+
+ rtnl_lock();
+ ret = dev_set_mac_address(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr);
+ rtnl_unlock();
if (ret == 0) {
/** Set the character device's hardware address. This is used when