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    tun: orphan an skb on tx · 0110d6f2
    Michael S. Tsirkin authored
    The following situation was observed in the field:
    tap1 sends packets, tap2 does not consume them, as a result
    tap1 can not be closed. This happens because
    tun/tap devices can hang on to skbs undefinitely.
    
    As noted by Herbert, possible solutions include a timeout followed by a
    copy/change of ownership of the skb, or always copying/changing
    ownership if we're going into a hostile device.
    
    This patch implements the second approach.
    
    Note: one issue still remaining is that since skbs
    keep reference to tun socket and tun socket has a
    reference to tun device, we won't flush backlog,
    instead simply waiting for all skbs to get transmitted.
    At least this is not user-triggerable, and
    this was not reported in practice, my assumption is
    other devices besides tap complete an skb
    within finite time after it has been queued.
    
    A possible solution for the second issue
    would not to have socket reference the device,
    instead, implement dev->destructor for tun, and
    wait for all skbs to complete there, but this
    needs some thought, probably too risky for 2.6.34.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarYan Vugenfirer <yvugenfi@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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