Thread (66 messages) 66 messages, 1 author, 2019-10-26
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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.3 34/99] ip6erspan: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ip6erspan

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-10-26 13:17:12
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

From: Haishuang Yan <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 4123f637a5129470ff9d3cb00a5a4e213f2e15cc ]

ip6erspan driver calls ether_setup(), after commit 61e84623ace3
("net: centralize net_device min/max MTU checking"), the range
of mtu is [min_mtu, max_mtu], which is [68, 1500] by default.

It causes the dev mtu of the erspan device to not be greater
than 1500, this limit value is not correct for ip6erspan tap
device.

Fixes: 61e84623ace3 ("net: centralize net_device min/max MTU checking")
Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <redacted>
Acked-by: William Tu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index d5779d6a60650..787d9f2a6e990 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -2192,6 +2192,7 @@ static void ip6erspan_tap_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	ether_setup(dev);
 
+	dev->max_mtu = 0;
 	dev->netdev_ops = &ip6erspan_netdev_ops;
 	dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
 	dev->priv_destructor = ip6gre_dev_free;
-- 
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