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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt6
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c27
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h2
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 */