APPLIED: [SRU] [B/C] [PATCH 0/1] Allow userspace to change tun's carrier state

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Fri Mar 8 03:28:02 UTC 2019


On 2019-03-07 02:00:17 , Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1806392
> 
> [Impact]
> Userspace cannot change tun's carrier state.
> 
> [Fix]
> Add .ndo_change_carrier callback for tun.
> 
> [Test]
> User confirm the backport works.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low. It add a new function and a new case switch for ioctl, but the new
> code doesn't affect existing behavior.
> 
> Nicolas Dichtel (1):
>   tun: implement carrier change
> 
>  drivers/net/tun.c           | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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