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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/tun.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 11a0ba47b67..b393536012f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1324,20 +1324,22 @@ static int tun_chr_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) struct tun_file *tfile = file->private_data; struct tun_struct *tun; - - rtnl_lock(); tun = __tun_get(tfile); if (tun) { - DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: tun_chr_close\n", tun->dev->name); + struct net_device *dev = tun->dev; + + DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: tun_chr_close\n", dev->name); __tun_detach(tun); /* If desireable, unregister the netdevice. */ - if (!(tun->flags & TUN_PERSIST)) - unregister_netdevice(tun->dev); - + if (!(tun->flags & TUN_PERSIST)) { + rtnl_lock(); + if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED) + unregister_netdevice(dev); + rtnl_unlock(); + } } - rtnl_unlock(); tun = tfile->tun; if (tun) |