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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>
---
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)--
2.18.0