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Patch "ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap

to the 4.14-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_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

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From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018

From: Xin Long <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:25:09 +0800
Subject: ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap

From: Xin Long <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2c52129a7d74d017320804c6928de770815c5f4a ]

The same fix as the patch "ip_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap" is also needed for ip6_gre.

Fixes 61e84623ace3 ("net: centralize net_device min/max MTU checking")
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c +1 -0
@@ -1335,6 +1335,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tap_setup(struct net_
 
 	ether_setup(dev);
 
+	dev->max_mtu = 0;
 	dev->netdev_ops = &ip6gre_tap_netdev_ops;
 	dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
 	dev->priv_destructor = ip6gre_dev_free;

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

queue-4.14/ip_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch queue-4.14/ip6_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch queue-4.14/ip6_tunnel-allow-ip6gre-dev-mtu-to-be-set-below-1280.patch queue-4.14/vxlan-update-skb-dst-pmtu-on-tx-path.patch queue-4.14/ip6_tunnel-get-the-min-mtu-properly-in-ip6_tnl_xmit.patch queue-4.14/sctp-fix-the-issue-that-a-__u16-variable-may-overflow-in-sctp_ulpq_renege.patch