Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tun: enable socket system calls

[Alex Gartrell]

Hello Jason,

Thanks for commenting.

On 12/26/14 4:43 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 12/26/2014 02:50 PM, Alex Gartrell wrote:
> > By setting private_data to a socket and private_data_is_socket to true, we
> > can use the socket syscalls.  We also can't just blindly use private_data
> > anymore, so there's a __tun_file_get function that returns the container_of
> > private_data appropriately.
>
> So this in fact expose other socket syscalls to userspace. But some of
> proto_ops was not supported. E.g consider what happens if a bind() was
> called for tun socket?

Yeah, I erroneously assumed that NULL => sock_no_*, but a quick glance 
assures me that that's not the case.  In this case, I'd need to 
introduce another patch that sets all of the additional ops to sock_no_*.

> > +static struct tun_file *tun_file_from_file(struct file *file)
> > +{
> > +	struct socket *s = (struct socket *)file->private_data;
> > +
> > +	if (!s)
>
> Can s be NULL here? If yes, why tun_get() didn't check for NULL?

This check is just to ensure that tun_get_socket continues to work in 
the right way when passed a file with private_data set to NULL.

Thanks,
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Alex Gartrell <agartrell@xxxxxx>
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