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tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()
[ Upstream commit 0ad646c81b2182f7fa67ec0c8c825e0ee165696d ] register_netdevice() could fail early when we have an invalid dev name, in which case ->ndo_uninit() is not called. For tun device, this is a problem because a timer etc. are already initialized and it expects ->ndo_uninit() to clean them up. We could move these initializations into a ->ndo_init() so that register_netdevice() knows better, however this is still complicated due to the logic in tun_detach(). Therefore, I choose to just call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice(), which is quicker and much easier to audit. And for this specific case, it is already enough. Fixes: 96442e4 ("tuntap: choose the txq based on rxq") Reported-by: Dmitry Alexeev <avekceeb@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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drivers/net/tun.c

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@@ -1684,6 +1684,9 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
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if (!dev)
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return -ENOMEM;
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err = dev_get_valid_name(net, dev, name);
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if (err)
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goto err_free_dev;
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dev_net_set(dev, net);
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dev->rtnl_link_ops = &tun_link_ops;

include/linux/netdevice.h

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@@ -3469,6 +3469,9 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
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unsigned char name_assign_type,
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void (*setup)(struct net_device *),
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unsigned int txqs, unsigned int rxqs);
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int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
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const char *name);
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#define alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, name_assign_type, setup) \
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alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, name_assign_type, setup, 1, 1)
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net/core/dev.c

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@@ -1111,9 +1111,8 @@ static int dev_alloc_name_ns(struct net *net,
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return ret;
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}
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static int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net,
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struct net_device *dev,
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const char *name)
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int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
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const char *name)
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{
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BUG_ON(!net);
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return 0;
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_valid_name);
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/**
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* dev_change_name - change name of a device

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