linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 250/305] tun: forbid iface creation with rtnl ops

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Date:   Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:45:08 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Nicolas Dichtel" <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 250/305] tun: forbid iface creation with rtnl ops

3.16.63-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

commit 35b827b6d06199841a83839e8bb69c0cd13a28be upstream.

It's not supported right now (the goal of the initial patch was to support
'ip link del' only).

Before the patch:
$ ip link add foo type tun
[  239.632660] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
[snip]
[  239.636410] RIP: 0010:register_netdevice+0x8e/0x3a0

This panic occurs because dev->netdev_ops is not set by tun_setup(). But to
have something usable, it will require more than just setting
netdev_ops.

Fixes: f019a7a594d9 ("tun: Implement ip link del tunXXX")
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Don't use extack]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1415,9 +1415,7 @@ static void tun_setup(struct net_device
  */
 static int tun_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
 {
-	if (!data)
-		return 0;
-	return -EINVAL;
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }
 
 static struct rtnl_link_ops tun_link_ops __read_mostly = {