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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:05:49 -0400
From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LKML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH] Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices

I recieved from Guido Guenther the patch below to the TUN/TAP driver
which allows group ownerships to be effective.

It seems reasonable to me.

> the attached patches allow tun ownership by group. We found this useful
> since we can then spawn tapX devices on system boot (via
> /etc/network/interfaces) which logged on users can then use for their
> virtual machines.
>   
> The first patch is for the kernel, the second one for the tunctl. They
> shouldn't change existing behaviour and we introduced a new syscall for
> the group setting. The user now is allowed to send packages if either
> his euid or his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g
> respecitvely). If both gid and uid are set via tunctl, both have to
> match. In case you find these useful, please apply.

-- 
Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com

From: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:10:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow tun ownership by group

---
 drivers/net/tun.c      |   15 +++++++++++++--
 include/linux/if_tun.h |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index a2c6caa..62b2b30 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev)
        init_waitqueue_head(&tun->read_wait);
 
        tun->owner = -1;
+       tun->group = -1;
 
        SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);
        dev->open = tun_net_open;
@@ -467,8 +468,11 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct file *file, struct ifreq 
*ifr)
                        return -EBUSY;
 
                /* Check permissions */
-               if (tun->owner != -1 &&
-                   current->euid != tun->owner && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+               if (((tun->owner != -1 &&
+                     current->euid != tun->owner) ||
+                    (tun->group != -1 &&
+                     current->egid != tun->group)) &&
+                    !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
                        return -EPERM;
        }
        else if (__dev_get_by_name(ifr->ifr_name))
@@ -610,6 +614,13 @@ static int tun_chr_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file 
*file,
                DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: owner set to %d\n", tun->dev->name, 
tun->owner);
                break;
 
+       case TUNSETGROUP:
+               /* Set group of the device */
+               tun->group= (gid_t) arg;
+
+               DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: group set to %d\n", tun->dev->name, 
tun->group);
+               break;
+
        case TUNSETLINK:
                /* Only allow setting the type when the interface is down */
                if (tun->dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
diff --git a/include/linux/if_tun.h b/include/linux/if_tun.h
index 88aef7b..42eb694 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_tun.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_tun.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct tun_struct {
        unsigned long           flags;
        int                     attached;
        uid_t                   owner;
+       gid_t                   group;
 
        wait_queue_head_t       read_wait;
        struct sk_buff_head     readq;
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ struct tun_struct {
 #define TUNSETPERSIST _IOW('T', 203, int) 
 #define TUNSETOWNER   _IOW('T', 204, int)
 #define TUNSETLINK    _IOW('T', 205, int)
+#define TUNSETGROUP   _IOW('T', 206, int)
 
 /* TUNSETIFF ifr flags */
 #define IFF_TUN                0x0001
-- 
1.5.1.4

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