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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arnd•de>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix•com>,
	Shirly Ma <mashirley@us•ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] macvtap: Close a race between macvtap_open and macvtap_dellink.
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:26:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1sjmnu4cm.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1wrbzu4ec.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:24:59 -0700")


There is a small window in macvtap_open between looking up a
networking device and calling macvtap_set_queue in which
macvtap_del_queues called from macvtap_dellink.   After
calling macvtap_del_queues it is totally incorrect to
allow macvtap_set_queue to proceed so prevent success by
reporting that all of the available queues are in use.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission•com>
---
 drivers/net/macvtap.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index 3da5578..70aa628 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ static void macvtap_del_queues(struct net_device *dev)
 		}
 	}
 	BUG_ON(vlan->numvtaps != 0);
+	/* guarantee that any future macvtap_set_queue will fail */
+	vlan->numvtaps = MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES;
 	spin_unlock(&macvtap_lock);
 
 	synchronize_rcu();
-- 
1.7.2.5

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-20 14:24 [PATCH 0/5] macvtap fixes Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-20 14:26 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2011-10-20 14:26   ` [PATCH 2/5] macvtap: Fix macvtap_open races in the zero copy enable code Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-20 14:27     ` [PATCH 3/5] macvtap: Don't leak unreceived packets when we delete a macvtap device Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-20 14:28       ` [PATCH 4/5] macvtap: Rewrite macvtap_newlink so the error handling works Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-20 14:29         ` [PATCH 5/5] macvtap: Fix the minor device number allocation Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-21  6:56 ` [PATCH 0/5] macvtap fixes David Miller
2011-10-24  6:31   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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