From 35b827b6d06199841a83839e8bb69c0cd13a28be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Dichtel Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:45:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tun: forbid iface creation with rtnl ops It's not supported right now (the goal of the initial patch was to support 'ip link del' only). Before the patch: $ ip link add foo type tun [ 239.632660] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 [snip] [ 239.636410] RIP: 0010:register_netdevice+0x8e/0x3a0 This panic occurs because dev->netdev_ops is not set by tun_setup(). But to have something usable, it will require more than just setting netdev_ops. Fixes: f019a7a594d9 ("tun: Implement ip link del tunXXX") CC: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/tun.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index e244f5d7512a..cf349e65a66b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -2293,9 +2293,9 @@ static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev) static int tun_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[], struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { - if (!data) - return 0; - return -EINVAL; + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, + "tun/tap creation via rtnetlink is not supported."); + return -EOPNOTSUPP; } static size_t tun_get_size(const struct net_device *dev) -- 2.30.2