[PATCH v2] tun: support not enabling carrier in TUNSETIFF

[Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>]

This change adds support for not enabling carrier during TUNSETIFF
interface creation by specifying the IFF_NO_CARRIER flag.

Our tests make heavy use of tun interfaces. In some scenarios, the test
process creates the interface but another process brings it up after the
interface is discovered via netlink notification. In that case, it is
not possible to create a tun/tap interface with carrier off without it
racing against the bring up. Immediately setting carrier off via
TUNSETCARRIER is still too late.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/tun.c           | 9 ++++++---
 include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 259b2b84b2b3..db736b944016 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -2828,7 +2828,10 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
 		rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
 	}
 
-	netif_carrier_on(tun->dev);
+	if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_NO_CARRIER)
+		netif_carrier_off(tun->dev);
+	else
+		netif_carrier_on(tun->dev);
 
 	/* Make sure persistent devices do not get stuck in
 	 * xoff state.
@@ -3056,8 +3059,8 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 		 * This is needed because we never checked for invalid flags on
 		 * TUNSETIFF.
 		 */
-		return put_user(IFF_TUN | IFF_TAP | TUN_FEATURES,
-				(unsigned int __user*)argp);
+		return put_user(IFF_TUN | IFF_TAP | IFF_NO_CARRIER |
+				TUN_FEATURES, (unsigned int __user*)argp);
 	} else if (cmd == TUNSETQUEUE) {
 		return tun_set_queue(file, &ifr);
 	} else if (cmd == SIOCGSKNS) {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
index 2ec07de1d73b..b6d7b868f290 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@
 #define IFF_TAP		0x0002
 #define IFF_NAPI	0x0010
 #define IFF_NAPI_FRAGS	0x0020
+/* Used in TUNSETIFF to bring up tun/tap without carrier */
+#define IFF_NO_CARRIER	0x0040
 #define IFF_NO_PI	0x1000
 /* This flag has no real effect */
 #define IFF_ONE_QUEUE	0x2000
-- 
2.37.3.968.ga6b4b080e4-goog