tun: add IFF_TUN_EXCL flag to avoid opening a persistent device.

When creating a certain types of VPN, NetworkManager will first attempt
to find an available tun device by iterating through 'vpn%d' until it
finds one that isn't already busy. Then it'll set that to be persistent
and owned by the otherwise unprivileged user that the VPN dæmon itself
runs as.

There's a race condition here -- during the period where the vpn%d
device is created and we're waiting for the VPN dæmon to actually
connect and use it, if we try to create _another_ device we could end up
re-using the same one -- because trying to open it again doesn't get
-EBUSY as it would while it's _actually_ busy.

So solve this, we add an IFF_TUN_EXCL flag which causes tun_set_iff() to
fail if it would be opening an existing persistent tundevice -- so that
we can make sure we're getting an entirely _new_ device.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net/tun.c

@@ -874,6 +874,8 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
 
 	dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);
 	if (dev) {
+		if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TUN_EXCL)
+			return -EBUSY;
 		if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TUN) && dev->netdev_ops == &tun_netdev_ops)
 			tun = netdev_priv(dev);
 		else if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_TAP) && dev->netdev_ops == &tap_netdev_ops)

include/linux/if_tun.h

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #define IFF_NO_PI	0x1000
 #define IFF_ONE_QUEUE	0x2000
 #define IFF_VNET_HDR	0x4000
+#define IFF_TUN_EXCL	0x8000
 
 /* Features for GSO (TUNSETOFFLOAD). */
 #define TUN_F_CSUM	0x01	/* You can hand me unchecksummed packets. */