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<title>linux.git/drivers/net/tun.c, branch v2.6.34</title>
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<title>tun: orphan an skb on tx</title>
<updated>2010-04-14T11:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-13T04:59:44+00:00</published>
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The following situation was observed in the field:
tap1 sends packets, tap2 does not consume them, as a result
tap1 can not be closed. This happens because
tun/tap devices can hang on to skbs undefinitely.

As noted by Herbert, possible solutions include a timeout followed by a
copy/change of ownership of the skb, or always copying/changing
ownership if we're going into a hostile device.

This patch implements the second approach.

Note: one issue still remaining is that since skbs
keep reference to tun socket and tun socket has a
reference to tun device, we won't flush backlog,
instead simply waiting for all skbs to get transmitted.
At least this is not user-triggerable, and
this was not reported in practice, my assumption is
other devices besides tap complete an skb
within finite time after it has been queued.

A possible solution for the second issue
would not to have socket reference the device,
instead, implement dev-&gt;destructor for tun, and
wait for all skbs to complete there, but this
needs some thought, probably too risky for 2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yan Vugenfirer &lt;yvugenfi@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The following situation was observed in the field:
tap1 sends packets, tap2 does not consume them, as a result
tap1 can not be closed. This happens because
tun/tap devices can hang on to skbs undefinitely.

As noted by Herbert, possible solutions include a timeout followed by a
copy/change of ownership of the skb, or always copying/changing
ownership if we're going into a hostile device.

This patch implements the second approach.

Note: one issue still remaining is that since skbs
keep reference to tun socket and tun socket has a
reference to tun device, we won't flush backlog,
instead simply waiting for all skbs to get transmitted.
At least this is not user-triggerable, and
this was not reported in practice, my assumption is
other devices besides tap complete an skb
within finite time after it has been queued.

A possible solution for the second issue
would not to have socket reference the device,
instead, implement dev-&gt;destructor for tun, and
wait for all skbs to complete there, but this
needs some thought, probably too risky for 2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yan Vugenfirer &lt;yvugenfi@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T15:55:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-08T15:55:37+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
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<title>tun: socket filter support</title>
<updated>2010-02-18T00:35:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-14T01:01:10+00:00</published>
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This patch adds Linux Socket Filter support to
tun driver.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds Linux Socket Filter support to
tun driver.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes</title>
<updated>2010-02-09T10:13:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Mack</name>
<email>daniel@caiaq.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-03T00:01:28+00:00</published>
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In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack &lt;daniel@caiaq.de&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack &lt;daniel@caiaq.de&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>tun: export underlying socket</title>
<updated>2010-01-15T09:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-14T06:17:09+00:00</published>
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Tun device looks similar to a packet socket
in that both pass complete frames from/to userspace.

This patch fills in enough fields in the socket underlying tun driver
to support sendmsg/recvmsg operations, and message flags
MSG_TRUNC and MSG_DONTWAIT, and exports access to this socket
to modules.  Regular read/write behaviour is unchanged.

This way, code using raw sockets to inject packets
into a physical device, can support injecting
packets into host network stack almost without modification.

First user of this interface will be vhost virtualization
accelerator.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Tun device looks similar to a packet socket
in that both pass complete frames from/to userspace.

This patch fills in enough fields in the socket underlying tun driver
to support sendmsg/recvmsg operations, and message flags
MSG_TRUNC and MSG_DONTWAIT, and exports access to this socket
to modules.  Regular read/write behaviour is unchanged.

This way, code using raw sockets to inject packets
into a physical device, can support injecting
packets into host network stack almost without modification.

First user of this interface will be vhost virtualization
accelerator.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tun: use tun_sk instead container_of</title>
<updated>2009-12-27T04:24:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaliy Gusev</name>
<email>vgusev@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-25T07:17:43+00:00</published>
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Using macro tun_sk is more clear and shorter. However tun.c has tun_sk,
but doesn't use it.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev &lt;vgusev@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Using macro tun_sk is more clear and shorter. However tun.c has tun_sk,
but doesn't use it.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev &lt;vgusev@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/tun: handle compat_ioctl directly</title>
<updated>2009-11-07T06:52:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-07T06:52:32+00:00</published>
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The tun driver is the only code in the kernel that operates
on a character device with struct ifreq. Change the driver
to handle the conversion itself so we can contain the
remaining ifreq handling in the socket layer.

This also fixes a bug in the handling of invalid ioctl
numbers on an unbound tun device. The driver treats this
as a TUNSETIFF in native mode, but there is no way for
the generic compat_ioctl() function to emulate this
behaviour. Possibly the driver was only doing this
accidentally anyway, but if any code relies on this
misfeature, it now also works in compat mode.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The tun driver is the only code in the kernel that operates
on a character device with struct ifreq. Change the driver
to handle the conversion itself so we can contain the
remaining ifreq handling in the socket layer.

This also fixes a bug in the handling of invalid ioctl
numbers on an unbound tun device. The driver treats this
as a TUNSETIFF in native mode, but there is no way for
the generic compat_ioctl() function to emulate this
behaviour. Possibly the driver was only doing this
accidentally anyway, but if any code relies on this
misfeature, it now also works in compat mode.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: Remove BKL from tun</title>
<updated>2009-10-14T08:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-14T08:19:46+00:00</published>
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The lock_kernel/unlock_kernel() in cycle_kernel_lock() which is called
in tun_chr_open() is not serializing against anything and safe to
remove.

tun_chr_fasync() is serialized by get/put_tun() and fasync_helper()
has no dependency on BKL. The modification of tun-&gt;flags is racy with
and without the BKL so removing it does not make it worse.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The lock_kernel/unlock_kernel() in cycle_kernel_lock() which is called
in tun_chr_open() is not serializing against anything and safe to
remove.

tun_chr_fasync() is serialized by get/put_tun() and fasync_helper()
has no dependency on BKL. The modification of tun-&gt;flags is racy with
and without the BKL so removing it does not make it worse.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/</title>
<updated>2009-09-24T22:13:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T22:13:11+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/staging/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/Makefile
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/TODO
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc-usb_drv.c
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc.h
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc_int.h
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpcusb.h
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Conflicts:
	drivers/staging/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/Makefile
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/TODO
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc-usb_drv.c
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc.h
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc_int.h
	drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpcusb.h
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<entry>
<title>tun: Return -EINVAL if neither IFF_TUN nor IFF_TAP is set.</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T21:00:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kusanagi Kouichi</name>
<email>slash@ma.neweb.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-16T21:36:13+00:00</published>
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After commit 2b980dbd77d229eb60588802162c9659726b11f4
("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") tun_set_iff doesn't
return -EINVAL though neither IFF_TUN nor IFF_TAP is set.

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi &lt;slash@ma.neweb.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After commit 2b980dbd77d229eb60588802162c9659726b11f4
("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") tun_set_iff doesn't
return -EINVAL though neither IFF_TUN nor IFF_TAP is set.

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi &lt;slash@ma.neweb.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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