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From: "Steve Schmidtke" <steve_schmidtke@hotmail.com>
To: djb@cr.yp.to
Cc: User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [local] [kill] uml-utilities 20030903 uml_net slip_down() fails
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:37:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY24-F18CCBB36259F34F2AFB7C683AD0@phx.gbl> (raw)

D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>The underlying bug is that, in slip.c, slip_down() has no idea whether
>the user is actually allowed to take down the specified interface.

I'm thinking the proper fix would be to send the open fd to uml_net just 
like when it was upped (if you can open it, you own it).  The line 
discipline on the fd can be checked with ioctl TIOCGETD if it's N_SLIP, but 
I'm not sure the interface name can be recovered from the fd.  The tty ioctl 
TIOCSETD in the kernel looks like it returns two different values: either 
the dev index if the slip line is new (useful), or 0 if it has already been 
set (not useful).

Steve Schmidtke




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