Patch "ip6_vti: adjust vti mtu according to mtu of lower device" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ip6_vti: adjust vti mtu according to mtu of lower device

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ip6_vti-adjust-vti-mtu-according-to-mtu-of-lower-device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:59:21 +0300
Subject: ip6_vti: adjust vti mtu according to mtu of lower device

From: Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 53c81e95df1793933f87748d36070a721f6cb287 ]

LTP/udp6_ipsec_vti tests fail when sending large UDP datagrams over ip6_vti that require fragmentation and the underlying device has an MTU smaller than 1500 plus some extra space for headers. This happens because ip6_vti, by default, sets MTU to ETH_DATA_LEN and not updating it depending on a destination address or link parameter. Further attempts to send UDP packets may succeed because pmtu gets updated on ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG in vti6_err().

In case the lower device has larger MTU size, e.g. 9000, ip6_vti works but not using the possible maximum size, output packets have 1500 limit.

The above cases require manual MTU setup after ip6_vti creation. However ip_vti already updates MTU based on lower device with ip_tunnel_bind_dev().

Here is the example when the lower device MTU is set to 9000:

  # ip a sh ltp_ns_veth2
      ltp_ns_veth2@if7: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 ...
        inet 10.0.0.2/24 scope global ltp_ns_veth2
        inet6 fd00::2/64 scope global

  # ip li add vti6 type vti6 local fd00::2 remote fd00::1
  # ip li show vti6
      vti6@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 1500 ...
        link/tunnel6 fd00::2 peer fd00::1

After the patch:

  # ip li add vti6 type vti6 local fd00::2 remote fd00::1
  # ip li show vti6
      vti6@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 8832 ...
        link/tunnel6 fd00::2 peer fd00::1

---
 net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

@@ -614,6 +614,7 @@ static void vti6_link_config(struct ip6_
 {
 	struct net_device *dev = t->dev;
 	struct __ip6_tnl_parm *p = &t->parms;
+	struct net_device *tdev = NULL;
 
 	memcpy(dev->dev_addr, &p->laddr, sizeof(struct in6_addr));
 	memcpy(dev->broadcast, &p->raddr, sizeof(struct in6_addr));

@@ -626,6 +627,25 @@ static void vti6_link_config(struct ip6_
 		dev->flags |= IFF_POINTOPOINT;
 	else
 		dev->flags &= ~IFF_POINTOPOINT;
+
+	if (p->flags & IP6_TNL_F_CAP_XMIT) {
+		int strict = (ipv6_addr_type(&p->raddr) &
+			      (IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST | IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL));
+		struct rt6_info *rt = rt6_lookup(t->net,
+						 &p->raddr, &p->laddr,
+						 p->link, strict);
+
+		if (rt)
+			tdev = rt->dst.dev;
+		ip6_rt_put(rt);
+	}
+
+	if (!tdev && p->link)
+		tdev = __dev_get_by_index(t->net, p->link);
+
+	if (tdev)
+		dev->mtu = max_t(int, tdev->mtu - dev->hard_header_len,
+				 IPV6_MIN_MTU);
 }
 
 /**

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ip6_vti-adjust-vti-mtu-according-to-mtu-of-lower-device.patch