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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h | 2 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt b/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt index 091d20273dcb..61daf4b39600 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt @@ -300,12 +300,6 @@ unattached instance are: The ioctl calls available on an instance of /dev/ppp attached to a channel are: -* PPPIOCDETACH detaches the instance from the channel. This ioctl is - deprecated since the same effect can be achieved by closing the - instance. In order to prevent possible races this ioctl will fail - with an EINVAL error if more than one file descriptor refers to this - instance (i.e. as a result of dup(), dup2() or fork()). - * PPPIOCCONNECT connects this channel to a PPP interface. The argument should point to an int containing the interface unit number. It will return an EINVAL error if the channel is already 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; } diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h index b19a9c249b15..784c2e3e572e 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct pppol2tp_ioc_stats { #define PPPIOCGIDLE _IOR('t', 63, struct ppp_idle) /* get idle time */ #define PPPIOCNEWUNIT _IOWR('t', 62, int) /* create new ppp unit */ #define PPPIOCATTACH _IOW('t', 61, int) /* attach to ppp unit */ -#define PPPIOCDETACH _IOW('t', 60, int) /* detach from ppp unit/chan */ +#define PPPIOCDETACH _IOW('t', 60, int) /* obsolete, do not use */ #define PPPIOCSMRRU _IOW('t', 59, int) /* set multilink MRU */ #define PPPIOCCONNECT _IOW('t', 58, int) /* connect channel to unit */ #define PPPIOCDISCONN _IO('t', 57) /* disconnect channel */ |