netdev - tun: add IFF_TUN_EXCL flag to avoid opening a persistent device.

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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:04:18 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: tun: add IFF_TUN_EXCL flag to avoid opening a persistent device.

When creating a certain types of VPN, NetworkManager will first attempt
to find an available tun device by iterating through 'vpn%d' until it
finds one that isn't already busy. Then it'll set that to be persistent
and owned by the otherwise unprivileged user that the VPN dæmon itself
runs as.

There's a race condition here -- during the period where the vpn%d
device is created and we're waiting for the VPN dæmon to actually
connect and use it, if we try to create _another_ device we could end up
re-using the same one -- because trying to open it again doesn't get
-EBUSY as it would while it's _actually_ busy.

So solve this, we add an IFF_TUN_EXCL flag which causes tun_set_iff() to
fail if it would be opening an existing persistent tundevice -- so that
we can make sure we're getting an entirely _new_ device.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 16716ae..0488380 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -867,6 +867,8 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)

 	dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);
 	if (dev) {
+		if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TUN_EXCL)
+			return -EBUSY;
 		if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TUN) && dev->netdev_ops == &tun_netdev_ops)
 			tun = netdev_priv(dev);
 		else if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TAP) && dev->netdev_ops == &tap_netdev_ops)
diff --git a/include/linux/if_tun.h b/include/linux/if_tun.h
index 049d6c9..915ba57 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_tun.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_tun.h
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #define IFF_NO_PI	0x1000
 #define IFF_ONE_QUEUE	0x2000
 #define IFF_VNET_HDR	0x4000
+#define IFF_TUN_EXCL	0x8000

 /* Features for GSO (TUNSETOFFLOAD). */
 #define TUN_F_CSUM	0x01	/* You can hand me unchecksummed packets. */

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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