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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index dc7c7ec43202..02ad03a2fab7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -605,30 +605,13 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) if (cmd == PPPIOCDETACH) { /* - * We have to be careful here... if the file descriptor - * has been dup'd, we could have another process in the - * middle of a poll using the same file *, so we had - * better not free the interface data structures - - * instead we fail the ioctl. Even in this case, we - * shut down the interface if we are the owner of it. - * Actually, we should get rid of PPPIOCDETACH, userland - * (i.e. pppd) could achieve the same effect by closing - * this fd and reopening /dev/ppp. + * PPPIOCDETACH is no longer supported as it was heavily broken, + * and is only known to have been used by pppd older than + * ppp-2.4.2 (released November 2003). */ + pr_warn_once("%s (%d) used obsolete PPPIOCDETACH ioctl\n", + current->comm, current->pid); err = -EINVAL; - if (pf->kind == INTERFACE) { - ppp = PF_TO_PPP(pf); - rtnl_lock(); - if (file == ppp->owner) - unregister_netdevice(ppp->dev); - rtnl_unlock(); - } - if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) < 2) { - ppp_release(NULL, file); - err = 0; - } else - pr_warn("PPPIOCDETACH file->f_count=%ld\n", - atomic_long_read(&file->f_count)); goto out; } |