3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8e6d91ae0917bf934ed86411148f79d904728d51 ] We currently allow changing the mq flag (IFF_MULTI_QUEUE) for a persistent device. This will result a mismatch between the number the queues in netdev and tuntap. This is because we only allocate a 1q netdevice when IFF_MULTI_QUEUE was not specified, so when we set the IFF_MULTI_QUEUE and try to attach more queues later, netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() may fail which result a single queue netdevice with multiple sockets attached. Solve this by disallowing changing the mq flag for persistent device. Bug was introduced by commit edfb6a148ce62e5e19354a1dcd9a34e00815c2a1 (tuntap: reduce memory using of queues). Reported-by: Sriram Narasimhan <sriram.narasimhan@xxxxxx> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1585,6 +1585,10 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, else return -EINVAL; + if (!!(ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_MULTI_QUEUE) != + !!(tun->flags & TUN_TAP_MQ)) + return -EINVAL; + if (tun_not_capable(tun)) return -EPERM; err = security_tun_dev_open(tun->security); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html