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tun: Interface to query tun/tap features.

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The problem with introducing checksum offload and gso to tun is they
need to set dev->features to enable GSO and/or checksumming, which is
supposed to be done before register_netdevice(), ie. as part of
TUNSETIFF.

Unfortunately, TUNSETIFF has always just ignored flags it doesn't
understand, so there's no good way of detecting whether the kernel
supports new IFF_ flags.

This patch implements a TUNGETFEATURES ioctl which returns all the valid IFF
flags.  It could be extended later to include other features.

Here's an example program which uses it:

#include <linux/if_tun.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <stdio.h>

static struct {
	unsigned int flag;
	const char *name;
} known_flags[] = {
	{ IFF_TUN, "TUN" },
	{ IFF_TAP, "TAP" },
	{ IFF_NO_PI, "NO_PI" },
	{ IFF_ONE_QUEUE, "ONE_QUEUE" },
};

int main()
{
	unsigned int features, i;

	int netfd = open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR);
	if (netfd < 0)
		err(1, "Opening /dev/net/tun");

	if (ioctl(netfd, TUNGETFEATURES, &features) != 0) {
		printf("Kernel does not support TUNGETFEATURES, guessing\n");
		features = (IFF_TUN|IFF_TAP|IFF_NO_PI|IFF_ONE_QUEUE);
	}
	printf("Available features are: ");
	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(known_flags)/sizeof(known_flags[0]); i++) {
		if (features & known_flags[i].flag) {
			features &= ~known_flags[i].flag;
			printf("%s ", known_flags[i].name);
		}
	}
	if (features)
		printf("(UNKNOWN %#x)", features);
	printf("\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rusty Russell 2008-07-03 03:45:32 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 44d28ab19c
commit 07240fd090
2 changed files with 9 additions and 0 deletions
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drivers/net/tun.c
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@ -640,6 +640,14 @@ static int tun_chr_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
return 0;
}
if (cmd == TUNGETFEATURES) {
/* Currently this just means: "what IFF flags are valid?".
* This is needed because we never checked for invalid flags on
* TUNSETIFF. */
return put_user(IFF_TUN | IFF_TAP | IFF_NO_PI | IFF_ONE_QUEUE,
(unsigned int __user*)argp);
}
if (!tun)
return -EBADFD;

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include/linux/if_tun.h
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@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#define TUNSETOWNER _IOW('T', 204, int)
#define TUNSETLINK _IOW('T', 205, int)
#define TUNSETGROUP _IOW('T', 206, int)
#define TUNGETFEATURES _IOR('T', 207, unsigned int)
/* TUNSETIFF ifr flags */
#define IFF_TUN 0x0001