Re: [PATCH net-net 0/4] Increase the limit of tuntap queues

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:23:21PM -0500, David Miller wrote:

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:30:32 +0200

quoted

qemu runs in the host, but it's unpriveledged: it gets
passed tun FDs by a priveledged daemon, and it only
has the rights to some operations,
in particular to attach and detach queues.

The assumption always was that this operation is safe
and can't make kernel run out of resources.

This creates a rather rediculous situation in my opinion.

Configuring a network device is a privileged operation, the daemon
should be setting this thing up.

In no other context would we have to worry about something like this.

Right.  Jason corrected me.  I got it wrong:
what qemu does is TUNSETQUEUE and that needs to get a queue
that's already initialized by the daemon.

To create new queues daemon calls TUNSETIFF,
and that already can be used to create new devices,
so it's a priveledged operation.

This means it's safe to just drop the restriction,
exactly as you suggested originally.
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MST