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Herbert Xu 876bfd4d0f tun: Extend RTNL lock coverage over whole ioctl 
As it is, parts of the ioctl runs under the RTNL and parts of
it do not.  The unlocked section is still protected by the BKL,
but there can be subtle races.  For example, Eric Biederman and
Paul Moore observed that if two threads tried to create two tun
devices on the same file descriptor, then unexpected results
may occur.

As there isn't anything in the ioctl that is expected to sleep
indefinitely, we can prevent this from occurring by extending
the RTNL lock coverage.

This also allows to get rid of the BKL.

Finally, I changed tun_get_iff to take a tun device in order to
avoid calling tun_put which would dead-lock as it also tries to
take the RTNL lock.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-09 21:45:35 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'misc-2.6.31' into release 2009-08-02 12:55:51 -04:00
amba [ARM] amba: fix amba device resources 2009-07-05 22:39:08 +01:00
ata libata: accept late unlocking of HPA 2009-07-28 21:07:09 -04:00
atm
auxdisplay
base driver core: sysdev: do not send KOBJ_ADD uevent if kobject_init_and_add fails 2009-07-28 13:45:22 -07:00
block mg_disk: Add missing ready status check on mg_write() 2009-07-28 08:57:33 +02:00
bluetooth headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
cdrom
char Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6 2009-08-04 15:39:43 -07:00
clocksource
connector connector: maintainer/mail update. 2009-07-21 12:43:51 -07:00
cpufreq [CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq suspend code conditional on powerpc. 2009-08-04 14:32:11 -04:00
cpuidle
crypto
dca
dio
dma Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx 2009-07-30 16:46:31 -07:00
edac amd64_edac: print debug statements only on error 2009-08-04 12:10:06 +02:00
eisa
firewire Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2009-07-06 14:03:44 -07:00
firmware
gpio headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
gpu drm/i915: silence vblank warnings 2009-08-09 12:25:29 +10:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2009-07-22 09:30:07 -07:00
hwmon hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Fix upper limit readings 2009-07-28 16:31:39 +02:00
i2c i2c-omap: OMAP3430 Silicon Errata 1.153 2009-07-30 01:03:24 +01:00
ide ide-tape: Don't leak kernel stack information 2009-07-21 20:36:25 -07:00
idle
ieee1394 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2009-07-06 14:03:44 -07:00
ieee802154
infiniband
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2009-08-07 10:42:14 -07:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-08-04 15:38:34 -07:00
leds Update Yoichi Yuasa's e-mail address 2009-07-03 15:45:29 +01:00
lguest lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style. 2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
macintosh powerpc/pmac: Fix DMA ops for MacIO devices 2009-06-26 14:37:25 +10:00
mca
md md: Use revalidate_disk to effect changes in size of device. 2009-08-03 10:59:58 +10:00
media V4L/DVB (12303): cx23885: check pointers before dereferencing in dprintk macro 2009-07-24 14:03:32 -03:00
memstick
message
mfd mfd: twl4030 irq fixes 2009-08-04 20:31:32 +02:00
misc cb710: use SG_MITER_TO_SG/SG_MITER_FROM_SG 2009-07-31 12:28:46 +02:00
mmc drivers/mmc: correct error-handling code 2009-08-07 10:39:56 -07:00
mtd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6 2009-08-09 14:58:34 -07:00
net tun: Extend RTNL lock coverage over whole ioctl 2009-08-09 21:45:35 -07:00
nubus
of of/mdio: Add support function for Ethernet fixed-link property 2009-07-22 09:27:18 -07:00
oprofile oprofile: reset bt_lost_no_mapping with other stats 2009-07-10 12:35:36 +02:00
parisc parisc: hppb.c - fix printk format strings 2009-08-02 15:42:39 +02:00
parport parport/serial: add support for NetMos 9901 Multi-IO card 2009-06-30 18:55:59 -07:00
pci intel-iommu: Fix enabling snooping feature by mistake 2009-08-06 11:35:50 +01:00
pcmcia Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats 2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
platform Merge branch 'bugzilla-13825' into release 2009-08-02 12:36:01 -04:00
pnp
power Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/battery-2.6.31 2009-07-30 16:45:53 -07:00
pps
ps3
rapidio
regulator
rtc rtc: mark if rtc-cmos drivers were successfully registered 2009-07-29 19:10:35 -07:00
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6 2009-08-04 15:38:10 -07:00
sbus
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-08-04 15:38:34 -07:00
serial Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-08-07 10:46:51 -07:00
sh
sn
spi spi: omap2_mcspi rxdma bugfix 2009-07-29 19:10:35 -07:00
ssb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-07-09 20:33:18 -07:00
staging Staging: rspiusb: Fix buffer overflow 2009-08-07 16:12:03 -07:00
tc
telephony headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
thermal
uio
usb USB: fix oops on disconnect in cdc-acm 2009-08-07 16:05:14 -07:00
uwb
video i.MX31: fix framebuffer locking regressions 2009-08-07 10:39:56 -07:00
virtio virtio: refactor find_vqs 2009-07-30 16:03:45 +09:30
vlynq vlynq: fix typo in Kconfig to enable debugging 2009-07-06 13:57:03 -07:00
w1 drivers/w1/masters/omap_hdq.c: fix missing mutex unlock 2009-08-07 10:39:55 -07:00
watchdog Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-08-07 10:46:51 -07:00
xen xen: Use kcalloc() in xen_init_IRQ() 2009-07-01 11:19:47 +02:00
zorro
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