[TUN]: Fix RTNL-locking in tun/tap driver
Current tun/tap driver sets also net device's hw address when asked to
change character device's hw address. This is a good idea, but it
misses RTLN-locking, resulting following error message in 2.6.25-rc3's
inetdev_event() function:
RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/devinet.c (1050)
Attached patch fixes this problem.
Signed-off-by: Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 038c1ef..7b816a0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -663,7 +663,11 @@
case SIOCSIFHWADDR:
{
/* try to set the actual net device's hw address */
- int ret = dev_set_mac_address(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr);
+ int ret;
+
+ rtnl_lock();
+ ret = dev_set_mac_address(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr);
+ rtnl_unlock();
if (ret == 0) {
/** Set the character device's hardware address. This is used when
