[PATCH 5/14][TUN]: Allow to register tun devices in namespace.

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at openvz.org
Thu Apr 10 08:09:34 PDT 2008


This is basically means that a net is set for a new device, but
actually this involves two more steps:

1. mark the tun device as "local", i.e. do not allow for it to
   move across namespaces.

This is done so, since tun device is most often associated to some
file (and thus to some process) and moving the device alone is not
valid while keeping the file and the process outside (and the tun 
devices are not always "persistent" ;) ).

2. get the tun device's net when tun becomes attached and put one
   when it becomes detached.

This is needed to handle the case when a task owning the tun dies,
but a files lives for some more time - in this case we must not
allow for net to be freed, since its exit hook will spoil that file's
private data by unregistering the tun from under tun_chr_close.

(The TUN virtualization patches were approved by TUN maintainer)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>

---
 drivers/net/tun.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 74263a4..893e92f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->stop = tun_net_close;
 	dev->ethtool_ops = &tun_ethtool_ops;
 	dev->destructor = free_netdev;
+	dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
 }
 
 static struct tun_struct *tun_get_by_name(struct tun_net *tn, const char *name)
@@ -508,6 +509,7 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
 		if (!dev)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
+		dev_net_set(dev, net);
 		tun = netdev_priv(dev);
 		tun->dev = dev;
 		tun->flags = flags;
@@ -547,6 +549,7 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
 
 	file->private_data = tun;
 	tun->attached = 1;
+	get_net(dev_net(tun->dev));
 
 	strcpy(ifr->ifr_name, tun->dev->name);
 	return 0;
@@ -762,6 +765,7 @@ static int tun_chr_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	/* Detach from net device */
 	file->private_data = NULL;
 	tun->attached = 0;
+	put_net(dev_net(tun->dev));
 
 	/* Drop read queue */
 	skb_queue_purge(&tun->readq);
-- 
1.5.3.4



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