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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>2009-06-08 00:44:31 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-06-08 00:44:31 -0700
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tun: Fix unregister race
It is possible for tun_chr_close to race with dellink on the a tun device. In which case if __tun_get runs before dellink but dellink runs before tun_chr_close calls unregister_netdevice we will attempt to unregister the netdevice after it is already gone. The two cases are already serialized on the rtnl_lock, so I have gone for the cheap simple fix of moving rtnl_lock to cover __tun_get in tun_chr_close. Eliminating the possibility of the tun device being unregistered between __tun_get and unregister_netdevice in tun_chr_close. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Tested-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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