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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tun: avoid owner checks on IFF_ATTACH_QUEUE
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 01:31:08PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> At the moment, we check owner when we enable queue in tun.
> This seems redundant and will break some valid uses
> where fd is passed around: I think TUNSETOWNER is there
> to prevent others from attaching to a persistent device not
> owned by them. Here the fd is already attached,
> enabling/disabling queue is more like read/write.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>
> ---
>
> Note: this is unrelated to Stefan's bugfix.

This should go into 3.8-rc.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>


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