From: Wei Wang <wei...@google.com> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:59:47 -0700
> 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 update sk->sk_dst_cache and other corresponding fields > when a new routing cache is allocated for the new pmtu in UDP connected > socket case. > > Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei...@google.com> Wait a second: > if (nrt6) { > rt6_do_update_pmtu(nrt6, mtu); > - > - /* ip6_ins_rt(nrt6) will bump the > - * rt6->rt6i_node->fn_sernum > - * which will fail the next rt6_check() and > - * invalidate the sk->sk_dst_cache. > - */ > + if (sk) > + ip6_dst_store(sk, &nrt6->dst, daddr, saddr); > ip6_ins_rt(nrt6); > } > } I still haven't seen a satisfactory answer as to why the as-designed invalidation mechanism using fn_sernum is not working. If that's broken, then a lot of other things won't work properly either. I've read the ip6_ins_rt() code path several times, and it always increments the serial number, and therefore the next dst->check() call (which every cached route usage should invoke) should invalide this socket's route and lookup the new one. Why does this not work?