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Commit 0ad646c8 authored by Cong Wang's avatar Cong Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()



register_netdevice() could fail early when we have an invalid
dev name, in which case ->ndo_uninit() is not called. For tun
device, this is a problem because a timer etc. are already
initialized and it expects ->ndo_uninit() to clean them up.

We could move these initializations into a ->ndo_init() so
that register_netdevice() knows better, however this is still
complicated due to the logic in tun_detach().

Therefore, I choose to just call dev_get_valid_name() before
register_netdevice(), which is quicker and much easier to audit.
And for this specific case, it is already enough.

Fixes: 96442e42 ("tuntap: choose the txq based on rxq")
Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Alexeev <avekceeb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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