Re: IP fragmentation broken in 3.6-rc ?

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 19:34 +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:

	Hello,

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote:

quoted

Following patch should help :

diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index 621e351..a04aa37 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h

@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static inline void dst_set_expires(struct dst_entry *dst, int timeout)
 	if (expires == 0)
 		expires = 1;
 

	In theory, restart of PMTUD should not lead to
fatal problems, we will get new MTUs. But with such
change should be better, not much, because all MTU
events will come at same time, later timer will expire
and we will get again events from routers. The gain
will be an increased period (with milliseconds to seconds)
between PMTUD restarts. Compared to the 600-second timer,
this should be gain below 1% in reduced traffic for PMTUD.
Before now we started timer from first router, now we
will start/update timer period after event from last router.

Sorry I dont really understand what you mean

	But ipv4_link_failure and ip6_link_failure want to stop
this timer by setting it to NOW (0). May be we have to add
also a !timeout check here or to leave the code as before?

quoted

-	if (dst->expires == 0 || time_before(expires, dst->expires))
+	if (dst->expires == 0 || time_after(expires, dst->expires))
 		dst->expires = expires;
 }

	The original problem should be somewhere else, I think.

This patch fixed the problem for me.

My first patch was :

diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index e4ba974..9858714 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c

@@ -956,6 +956,7 @@ static void ip_rt_update_pmtu(struct dst_entry *dst, struct sock *sk,
 		dst->obsolete = DST_OBSOLETE_KILL;
 	} else {
 		rt->rt_pmtu = mtu;
+		rt->dst.expires = 0;
 		dst_set_expires(&rt->dst, ip_rt_mtu_expires);
 	}
 }