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tun: Fix minor race in TUNSETLINK ioctl handling.

Noticed by Alan Cox.

The IFF_UP test is a bit racey, because other entities
outside of this driver's ioctl handler can modify that
state, even though this ioctl handler runs under
lock_kernel().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 9 2
      drivers/net/tun.c

+ 9 - 2
drivers/net/tun.c

@@ -668,16 +668,23 @@ static int tun_chr_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
 		break;
 
 	case TUNSETLINK:
+	{
+		int ret;
+
 		/* Only allow setting the type when the interface is down */
+		rtnl_lock();
 		if (tun->dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
 			DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: Linktype set failed because interface is up\n",
 				tun->dev->name);
-			return -EBUSY;
+			ret = -EBUSY;
 		} else {
 			tun->dev->type = (int) arg;
 			DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: linktype set to %d\n", tun->dev->name, tun->dev->type);
+			ret = 0;
 		}
-		break;
+		rtnl_unlock();
+		return ret;
+	}
 
 #ifdef TUN_DEBUG
 	case TUNSETDEBUG: