On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Oussama Ghorbel wrote:
> Unlike ipv4, the struct member hlen holds the length of the GRE and ipv6
> headers. This length is also counted in dev->hard_header_len.
> Perhaps, it's more clean to modify the hlen to count only the GRE header
> without ipv6 header as the variable name suggest, but the simple way to fix
> this without regression risk is simply modify the calculation of the limit
> in ip6gre_tunnel_change_mtu function.
> Verified in kernel version v3.11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oussama Ghorbel <ou.ghor...@gmail.com>
> ---
> net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> index 90747f1..41487ab 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> @@ -1175,9 +1175,8 @@ done:
>
> static int ip6gre_tunnel_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
> {
> - struct ip6_tnl *tunnel = netdev_priv(dev);
> if (new_mtu < 68 ||
> - new_mtu > 0xFFF8 - dev->hard_header_len - tunnel->hlen)
> + new_mtu > 0xFFF8 - dev->hard_header_len)
> return -EINVAL;
> dev->mtu = new_mtu;
> return 0;
Hmmm...
dev->hard_header_len is initialized to LL_MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)
+ 4 but won't include the additional head space needed for GRE_SEQ, GRE_KEY
etc. if at time of tunnel creation the routing table did not had a good guess
for the outgoing device.
To make this correct we would have to refactor the usage of the variables a
bit as is done in ipv4/ip_tunnel.c. The safest thing would be to leave this
check as-is currently although we exclude some allowed mtus.
Perhaps you want to take a look how to achieve that? ;)
Greetings,
Hannes
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