There is a small window in macvtap_open between looking up a
networking device and calling macvtap_set_queue in which
macvtap_del_queues called from macvtap_dellink. After
calling macvtap_del_queues it is totally incorrect to
allow macvtap_set_queue to proceed so prevent success by
reporting that all of the available queues are in use.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <redacted>
---
drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index 3da5578..70aa628 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ static void macvtap_del_queues(struct net_device *dev)
}
}
BUG_ON(vlan->numvtaps != 0);
+ /* guarantee that any future macvtap_set_queue will fail */
+ vlan->numvtaps = MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES;
spin_unlock(&macvtap_lock);
synchronize_rcu();
--
1.7.2.5