vti: Add pmtu handling to vti_xmit.
authorSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:17:37 +0000 (10:17 +0100)
committerSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:59:56 +0000 (08:59 +0200)
We currently rely on the PMTU discovery of xfrm.
However if a packet is locally sent, the PMTU mechanism
of xfrm tries to do local socket notification what
might not work for applications like ping that don't
check for this. So add pmtu handling to vti_xmit to
report MTU changes immediately.

Reported-by: Mark McKinstry <Mark.McKinstry@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
net/ipv4/ip_vti.c

index 5cf10b777b7e4bb8b1037201a2c8bfeeb031c7cc..a917903d5e9742fb07bac1b2a7fa94ee069c0d54 100644 (file)
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vti_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
        struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
        struct net_device *tdev;        /* Device to other host */
        int err;
+       int mtu;
 
        if (!dst) {
                dev->stats.tx_carrier_errors++;
@@ -192,6 +193,23 @@ static netdev_tx_t vti_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
                        tunnel->err_count = 0;
        }
 
+       mtu = dst_mtu(dst);
+       if (skb->len > mtu) {
+               skb_dst(skb)->ops->update_pmtu(skb_dst(skb), NULL, skb, mtu);
+               if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
+                       icmp_send(skb, ICMP_DEST_UNREACH, ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED,
+                                 htonl(mtu));
+               } else {
+                       if (mtu < IPV6_MIN_MTU)
+                               mtu = IPV6_MIN_MTU;
+
+                       icmpv6_send(skb, ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG, 0, mtu);
+               }
+
+               dst_release(dst);
+               goto tx_error;
+       }
+
        skb_scrub_packet(skb, !net_eq(tunnel->net, dev_net(dev)));
        skb_dst_set(skb, dst);
        skb->dev = skb_dst(skb)->dev;
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