tree 68325fa489b07db5cf7311b79e9e245ed02e5d9a
parent 0456b4f8b742006c2b79fcbe6b0736aa1ad39180
author David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> 1240827834 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1240827834 -0700

tun: add IFF_TUN_EXCL flag to avoid opening a persistent device.

When creating a certain types of VPN, NetworkManager will first attempt
to find an available tun device by iterating through 'vpn%d' until it
finds one that isn't already busy. Then it'll set that to be persistent
and owned by the otherwise unprivileged user that the VPN dæmon itself
runs as.

There's a race condition here -- during the period where the vpn%d
device is created and we're waiting for the VPN dæmon to actually
connect and use it, if we try to create _another_ device we could end up
re-using the same one -- because trying to open it again doesn't get
-EBUSY as it would while it's _actually_ busy.

So solve this, we add an IFF_TUN_EXCL flag which causes tun_set_iff() to
fail if it would be opening an existing persistent tundevice -- so that
we can make sure we're getting an entirely _new_ device.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>