netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v1] tun: Cleanup error handling in tun_set

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Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:10:44 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] tun: Cleanup error handling in tun_set_iff()

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:38:42PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
>
> My concern is that I believe that if the kernel fails at an operation it 
> should do all it can to unwind any actions it took in the course of attempting 
> to perform the requested operation.  Leaving a TUN device around in the case 
> of a tun_attach() failure seems like the kernel is being lazy, sure a user can 
> cleanup the device but why should they have to?

That particular tun_attach should never fail.  Perhaps you can
just add a WARN_ON.

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