On 2019/8/20 上午10:28, Jason Wang wrote:

On 2019/8/20 上午9:25, David Miller wrote:
From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingli...@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:31:19 +0800

Call tun_attach() after register_netdevice() to make sure tfile->tun
is not published until the netdevice is registered. So the read/write
thread can not use the tun pointer that may freed by free_netdev().
(The tun and dev pointer are allocated by alloc_netdev_mqs(), they can
be freed by netdev_freemem().)
register_netdevice() must always be the last operation in the order of
network device setup.

At the point register_netdevice() is called, the device is visible globally
and therefore all of it's software state must be fully initialized and
ready for us.

You're going to have to find another solution to these problems.


The device is loosely coupled with sockets/queues. Each side is allowed to be go away without caring the other side. So in this case, there's a small window that network stack think the device has one queue but actually not, the code can then safely drop them. Maybe it's ok here with some comments?

Or if not, we can try to hold the device before tun_attach and drop it after register_netdevice().


Hi Yang:

I think maybe we can try to hold refcnt instead of playing real num queues here. Do you want to post a V4?

Thanks



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