From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Rongguang Wei <clementwei90@163.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, jasowangio@gmail.com,
andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 2/3] tun: fix inverted error check when re-attaching the filter
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:34:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.23ebf894fb51a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930080746.135017-3-clementwei90@163.com>
Rongguang Wei wrote:
> From: Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
>
> tun_attach() returns early when sk_attach_filter_kern() succeeds instead of
> when it fails, so a queue attached to a persistent TAP is never published
> in tun->tfiles[] while TUNSETIFF still reported success.
>
> Fix the check, so that a failed re-attach aborts the attach, and detach the
> filter again if a later step of tun_attach() fails.
>
> This has to come after the patch that keeps a kernel copy of the program:
> with the check fixed but the program still read from the caller's address
> space, a re-attach that used to succeed without installing any filter would
> fail with -EFAULT or -EINVAL.
>
> Fixes: 54f968d6efdb ("tuntap: move socket to tun_file")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/179027275318.2160803.4185895144088175048@kernel.org/
> Signed-off-by: Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 8:07 [PATCH net v3 0/3] tun: fix re-attaching the socket filter Rongguang Wei
2026-09-30 8:07 ` [PATCH net v3 1/3] tun: keep a kernel copy of the socket filter program Rongguang Wei
2026-09-30 18:33 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-02 3:25 ` Rongguang Wei
2026-10-01 14:10 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-02 3:13 ` Rongguang Wei
2026-09-30 8:07 ` [PATCH net v3 2/3] tun: fix inverted error check when re-attaching the filter Rongguang Wei
2026-09-30 18:34 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-10-01 14:10 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-02 3:17 ` Rongguang Wei
2026-09-30 8:07 ` [PATCH net v3 3/3] selftests: net: add TAP socket filter attach tests Rongguang Wei
2026-09-30 19:20 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-02 3:20 ` Rongguang Wei
2026-10-01 14:10 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-30 8:13 ` [PATCH net v3 0/3] tun: fix re-attaching the socket filter netdev-bot+sinfo
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