Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2013 18:34:53 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix the upper MTU limit in ipv6 GRE tunnel | From | Oussama Ghorbel <> |
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OK, I've resubmitted the patch with the proper Subject line. The new mail subject is: [PATCH] ipv6: Fix the upper MTU limit in GRE tunnel
Thanks, Oussama
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:53 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Oussama Ghorbel <ou.ghorbel@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:52:13 +0100 > >> Unlike ipv4, the struct member hlen holds the length of the GRE and ipv6 >> headers. This length is also counted in dev->hard_header_len. >> Perhaps, it's more clean to modify the hlen to count only the GRE header >> without ipv6 header as the variable name suggest, but the simple way to fix >> this without regression risk is simply modify the calculation of the limit >> in ip6gre_tunnel_change_mtu function. >> Verified in kernel version v3.11. >> >> Signed-off-by: Oussama Ghorbel <ou.ghorbel@gmail.com> > > Please resubmit this with a proper Subject line. > > It should be "[PATCH] " then a legitimate subsystem prefix. > In this case "ipv6: " would be appropriate. And then > the "ipv6" in your existing Subject text is redundant so > can be removed. > > Thanks.
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