Bug#594845: [PATCH] tun: Don't add sysfs attributes to devices without sysfs directories
Prior to Linux 2.6.35, net devices outside the initial net namespace
did not have sysfs directories. Attempting to add attributes to
them will trigger a BUG().
Reported-and-tested-by: Russell Stuart <russell-debian@stuart.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
This applies to 2.6.32 *only*. It has not been applied upstream since
the limitation no longer exists.
Dave, please ack or nak this for stable.
Ben.
drivers/net/tun.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 4fdfa2a..0f77aca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1006,7 +1006,8 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
if (err < 0)
goto err_free_sk;
- if (device_create_file(&tun->dev->dev, &dev_attr_tun_flags) ||
+ if (!net_eq(dev_net(tun->dev), &init_net) ||
+ device_create_file(&tun->dev->dev, &dev_attr_tun_flags) ||
device_create_file(&tun->dev->dev, &dev_attr_owner) ||
device_create_file(&tun->dev->dev, &dev_attr_group))
printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create tun sysfs files\n");
--
1.7.1
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