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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix the upper MTU limit in ipv6 GRE tunnel
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 08:18:15PM +0100, Oussama Ghorbel wrote:
> Yes, to summarize, the idea of this patch was to fix the incoherence
> in the condition of ip6gre_tunnel_change_mtu function
>
> if (new_mtu < 68 ||
> new_mtu > 0xFFF8 - dev->hard_header_len - tunnel->hlen)
>
> From the ip6gre_tnl_link_config function we can see that:
> The variable addend is equal the ipv6 header + gre header (including
> the gre options)
> On the other hand hard_header_len equal to the header of the lower
> layer + addend.
> So the quantity - (dev->hard_header_len + tunnel->hlen) equals - (eth
> header + ipv6 header + gre header + ipv6 header + gre header) which by
> no means this would represent anything! (I've just taken ipv6 over
> ethernet as example)
>
> As we have seen there is another approach to fix this issue is to
> re-factor the hlen to hold only the length of gre as it's done for
> ipv4 gre, however the solution provided in the patch seems to be
> regression risk-less.

I agree, it actually does not worsen the situation:

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>

> Although the value hold by hlen is not coherent with the variable name
> nor with ipv4, I think there is an advantage of the current approach
> of ipv6 hlen over ipv4 hlen, because we save the calculation of ipv6
> header each time. Ex:
> In ipv4 gre and in the function ipgre_header:
> iph = (struct iphdr *)skb_push(skb, t->hlen + sizeof(*iph));
> In ipv6 and in the function ip6gre_header
> ipv6h = (struct ipv6hdr *)skb_push(skb, t->hlen);

I see your point. But we should take care that t->hlen is always initialized,
regardless if we got a route and outgoing device or not.

Greetings,

Hannes



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