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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tun.c16
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)