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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>2009-06-08 03:44:31 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-06-08 03:44:31 -0400
commitf0a4d0e5b5bfd271e6737f7c095994835b70d450 (patch)
treea3ee9afad29dd6e01d7fe36c45ec1cca8d052ab9 /drivers/net/tun.c
parentef681ce1e8b3e63317cd724c200b2fd39286c005 (diff)
tun: Fix unregister race
It is possible for tun_chr_close to race with dellink on the a tun device. In which case if __tun_get runs before dellink but dellink runs before tun_chr_close calls unregister_netdevice we will attempt to unregister the netdevice after it is already gone. The two cases are already serialized on the rtnl_lock, so I have gone for the cheap simple fix of moving rtnl_lock to cover __tun_get in tun_chr_close. Eliminating the possibility of the tun device being unregistered between __tun_get and unregister_netdevice in tun_chr_close. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Tested-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.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index d83ccb8c982b..811d3517fce0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1322,21 +1322,22 @@ static int tun_chr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file * file)
1322static int tun_chr_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) 1322static int tun_chr_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
1323{ 1323{
1324 struct tun_file *tfile = file->private_data; 1324 struct tun_file *tfile = file->private_data;
1325 struct tun_struct *tun = __tun_get(tfile); 1325 struct tun_struct *tun;
1326 1326
1327 1327
1328 rtnl_lock();
1329 tun = __tun_get(tfile);
1328 if (tun) { 1330 if (tun) {
1329 DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: tun_chr_close\n", tun->dev->name); 1331 DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: tun_chr_close\n", tun->dev->name);
1330 1332
1331 rtnl_lock();
1332 __tun_detach(tun); 1333 __tun_detach(tun);
1333 1334
1334 /* If desireable, unregister the netdevice. */ 1335 /* If desireable, unregister the netdevice. */
1335 if (!(tun->flags & TUN_PERSIST)) 1336 if (!(tun->flags & TUN_PERSIST))
1336 unregister_netdevice(tun->dev); 1337 unregister_netdevice(tun->dev);
1337 1338
1338 rtnl_unlock();
1339 } 1339 }
1340 rtnl_unlock();
1340 1341
1341 tun = tfile->tun; 1342 tun = tfile->tun;
1342 if (tun) 1343 if (tun)