Commit b4de77ad authored by Dan Carpenter's avatar Dan Carpenter Committed by David S. Miller

ipip: potential race in ip_tunnel_init_net()

Eric Dumazet says that my previous fix for an ERR_PTR dereference
(ea857f28 'ipip: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ip_tunnel_init_net()')
could be racy and suggests the following fix instead.
Reported-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b8e2fde4
...@@ -854,16 +854,14 @@ int ip_tunnel_init_net(struct net *net, int ip_tnl_net_id, ...@@ -854,16 +854,14 @@ int ip_tunnel_init_net(struct net *net, int ip_tnl_net_id,
rtnl_lock(); rtnl_lock();
itn->fb_tunnel_dev = __ip_tunnel_create(net, ops, &parms); itn->fb_tunnel_dev = __ip_tunnel_create(net, ops, &parms);
rtnl_unlock();
if (IS_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev))
return PTR_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev);
/* FB netdevice is special: we have one, and only one per netns. /* FB netdevice is special: we have one, and only one per netns.
* Allowing to move it to another netns is clearly unsafe. * Allowing to move it to another netns is clearly unsafe.
*/ */
if (!IS_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev))
itn->fb_tunnel_dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; itn->fb_tunnel_dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
rtnl_unlock();
return 0; return PTR_RET(itn->fb_tunnel_dev);
} }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip_tunnel_init_net); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip_tunnel_init_net);
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