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[PATCH net v3 4/4] net: ipv6: Clamp to IP6_MAX_MTU in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward

From: Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-22 11:57:41
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: Alice Mikityanska <redacted>

Commit 427faee167bc ("net: ipv6: introduce ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward")
dropped the IP6_MAX_MTU clamp that used to be present in ip6_mtu(). A
similar IPv4 commit ac6627a28dbf ("net: ipv4: Consolidate ipv4_mtu and
ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward") preserves the IP_MAX_MTU clamp.

Restore the upper bound in the IPv6 flow to avoid potential 16-bit
overflows in forwarding paths.

Fixes: 427faee167bc ("net: ipv6: introduce ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward")
Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <redacted>
Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
---
 include/net/ip6_route.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/ip6_route.h b/include/net/ip6_route.h
index c69f1c871922..b9e8d2b759e9 100644
--- a/include/net/ip6_route.h
+++ b/include/net/ip6_route.h
@@ -384,6 +384,8 @@ static inline unsigned int ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(const struct dst_entry *dst
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 out:
+	mtu = min_t(unsigned int, mtu, IP6_MAX_MTU);
+
 	return mtu - lwtunnel_headroom(dst->lwtstate, mtu);
 }
 
-- 
2.55.0
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