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tun: add IFF_TUN_EXCL flag to avoid opening a persistent device.

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When creating a certain types of VPN, NetworkManager will first attempt
to find an available tun device by iterating through 'vpn%d' until it
finds one that isn't already busy. Then it'll set that to be persistent
and owned by the otherwise unprivileged user that the VPN dæmon itself
runs as.

There's a race condition here -- during the period where the vpn%d
device is created and we're waiting for the VPN dæmon to actually
connect and use it, if we try to create _another_ device we could end up
re-using the same one -- because trying to open it again doesn't get
-EBUSY as it would while it's _actually_ busy.

So solve this, we add an IFF_TUN_EXCL flag which causes tun_set_iff() to
fail if it would be opening an existing persistent tundevice -- so that
we can make sure we're getting an entirely _new_ device.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Woodhouse
2009-04-27 03:23:54 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
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@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#define IFF_NO_PI 0x1000
#define IFF_ONE_QUEUE 0x2000
#define IFF_VNET_HDR 0x4000
#define IFF_TUN_EXCL 0x8000
/* Features for GSO (TUNSETOFFLOAD). */
#define TUN_F_CSUM 0x01 /* You can hand me unchecksummed packets. */