Yizhou Zhao accee8e53a ipvs: fix PMTU for GUE/GRE tunnel ICMP errors
[ Upstream commit 6b335af0d0 ]

When an ICMP Fragmentation Needed error is received for a tunneled IPVS
connection, ip_vs_in_icmp() recomputes the MTU that the original packet
can use by subtracting the tunnel overhead from the reported next-hop
MTU.

The current code always subtracts sizeof(struct iphdr), which is only
the IPIP overhead. For GUE and GRE tunnels, ipvs_udp_decap() and
ipvs_gre_decap() already compute the additional tunnel header length,
but that value is scoped to the decapsulation block and is lost before
the ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED handling. As a result, the ICMP error sent back to
the client advertises an MTU that is too large, so PMTUD can fail to
converge for GUE/GRE-tunneled real servers.

With a reported next-hop MTU of 1400, a GUE tunnel currently returns
1380 to the client. The correct value is 1368:

  1400 - sizeof(struct iphdr) - sizeof(struct udphdr) -
  sizeof(struct guehdr)

Hoist the tunnel header length into the main ip_vs_in_icmp() scope and
subtract sizeof(struct iphdr) + ulen in the Fragmentation Needed path.
The IPIP path keeps ulen as 0, so its existing 1400 - 20 = 1380 result
is unchanged.

Fixes: 508f744c0d ("ipvs: strip udp tunnel headers from icmp errors")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <yangyx22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Ao Wang <wangao@seu.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <fengxw06@126.com>
Reported-by: Qi Li <qli01@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Ke Xu <xuke@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Stable-dep-of: 3f7a535ff0 ("ipvs: ensure inner headers in ICMP errors are in headroom")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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