Merge 5.0-rc4 into char-misc-next

We need the char-misc fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index a4fdad475594..18656c4094b3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -856,10 +856,6 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
 		err = 0;
 	}
 
-	rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
-	rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues], tfile);
-	tun->numqueues++;
-
 	if (tfile->detached) {
 		tun_enable_queue(tfile);
 	} else {
@@ -876,6 +872,13 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
 	 * refcnt.
 	 */
 
+	/* Publish tfile->tun and tun->tfiles only after we've fully
+	 * initialized tfile; otherwise we risk using half-initialized
+	 * object.
+	 */
+	rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
+	rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues], tfile);
+	tun->numqueues++;
 out:
 	return err;
 }