This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tun-call-dev_get_valid_name-before-register_netdevice.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Nov 15 17:24:03 CET 2017
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:58:53 -0700
Subject: tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 0ad646c81b2182f7fa67ec0c8c825e0ee165696d ]
register_netdevice() could fail early when we have an invalid
dev name, in which case ->ndo_uninit() is not called. For tun
device, this is a problem because a timer etc. are already
initialized and it expects ->ndo_uninit() to clean them up.
We could move these initializations into a ->ndo_init() so
that register_netdevice() knows better, however this is still
complicated due to the logic in tun_detach().
Therefore, I choose to just call dev_get_valid_name() before
register_netdevice(), which is quicker and much easier to audit.
And for this specific case, it is already enough.
Fixes: 96442e42429e ("tuntap: choose the txq based on rxq")
Reported-by: Dmitry Alexeev <avekceeb@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 3 +++
include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +++
net/core/dev.c | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1787,6 +1787,9 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net,
if (!dev)
return -ENOMEM;
+ err = dev_get_valid_name(net, dev, name);
+ if (err)
+ goto err_free_dev;
dev_net_set(dev, net);
dev->rtnl_link_ops = &tun_link_ops;
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3742,6 +3742,9 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int
unsigned char name_assign_type,
void (*setup)(struct net_device *),
unsigned int txqs, unsigned int rxqs);
+int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
+ const char *name);
+
#define alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, name_assign_type, setup) \
alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, name_assign_type, setup, 1, 1)
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1115,9 +1115,8 @@ static int dev_alloc_name_ns(struct net
return ret;
}
-static int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net,
- struct net_device *dev,
- const char *name)
+int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
+ const char *name)
{
BUG_ON(!net);
@@ -1133,6 +1132,7 @@ static int dev_get_valid_name(struct net
return 0;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_valid_name);
/**
* dev_change_name - change name of a device
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/tun-call-dev_get_valid_name-before-register_netdevice.patch
queue-4.9/net_sched-avoid-matching-qdisc-with-zero-handle.patch
queue-4.9/tun-allow-positive-return-values-on-dev_get_valid_name-call.patch