On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 11:19:21AM -0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> From: Wei Wang <wei...@google.com>
>
> When ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG message is received by a connected UDP socket,
> the new mtu value is not properly updated in the dst_entry associated
> with the socket.
> This leads to the issue that the mtu value returned by getsockopt(sockfd,
> IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_MTU, ...) is wrong.
> The fix is to call the corresponding pmtu related function for connected
> socket so that the dst_entry associated with the socket will get updated
> with the new mtu value.
Would it be a better fix if ip6_sk_update_pmtu() does a dst_check() and
updates sk->sk_dst_cache (if needed) before it returns?  It seems
ipv4_sk_update_pmtu() is also doing it.

or

sk->sk_dst_cache is still valid after ip6_sk_update_pmtu() returns?

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