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Commit 35b827b6 authored by Nicolas Dichtel's avatar Nicolas Dichtel Committed by David S. Miller
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tun: forbid iface creation with rtnl ops



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: f019a7a5 ("tun: Implement ip link del tunXXX")
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 436c9453
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