From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stefanha@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.8-rc] tuntap: refuse to re-attach to different tun_struct
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:38:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EFCF8A.3020907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130110.211237.653335807366477404.davem@davemloft.net>
On 01/11/2013 01:12 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:29:20 +0800
>
>> On 01/11/2013 06:39 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:59:48 +0100
>>>
>>>> Multiqueue tun devices support detaching a tun_file from its tun_struct
>>>> and re-attaching at a later point in time. This allows users to disable
>>>> a specific queue temporarily.
>>>>
>>>> ioctl(TUNSETIFF) allows the user to specify the network interface to
>>>> attach by name. This means the user can attempt to attach to interface
>>>> "B" after detaching from interface "A".
>>>>
>>>> The driver is not designed to support this so check we are re-attaching
>>>> to the right tun_struct. Failure to do so may lead to oops.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>> Applied.
>> Hi David:
>>
>> Any chance that I can have a respin on this patch, there's still a bug
>> after this patch. Or I just can send a patch on top?
> If I've applied it, there is no reverting.
Get it, will send patch on top.
Thanks
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-11 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-10 7:59 [PATCH 3.8-rc] tuntap: refuse to re-attach to different tun_struct Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-10 9:25 ` Jason Wang
2013-01-10 10:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-10 10:43 ` Jason Wang
2013-01-10 11:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-10 13:53 ` Jason Wang
2013-01-10 11:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-10 22:39 ` David Miller
2013-01-11 1:29 ` Jason Wang
2013-01-11 5:12 ` David Miller
2013-01-11 8:38 ` Jason Wang [this message]
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