tuntap: forbid changing mq flag for persistent device
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Tue, 28 May 2013 18:32:11 +0000 (18:32 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:39:02 +0000 (10:39 -0700)
commit997a75d57a5e97f350ac978ebfd53c91f680b03d
treef0ffcfa9bd292272b10fb5ef4efcb703e759bf7e
parentdb12be9d9717bdb1ca87caa315118a5b2b331753
tuntap: forbid changing mq flag for persistent device

[ Upstream commit 8e6d91ae0917bf934ed86411148f79d904728d51 ]

We currently allow changing the mq flag (IFF_MULTI_QUEUE) for a persistent
device. This will result a mismatch between the number the queues in netdev and
tuntap. This is because we only allocate a 1q netdevice when IFF_MULTI_QUEUE was
not specified, so when we set the IFF_MULTI_QUEUE and try to attach more queues
later, netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() may fail which result a single queue
netdevice with multiple sockets attached.

Solve this by disallowing changing the mq flag for persistent device.

Bug was introduced by commit edfb6a148ce62e5e19354a1dcd9a34e00815c2a1
(tuntap: reduce memory using of queues).

Reported-by: Sriram Narasimhan <sriram.narasimhan@hp.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/tun.c