Alexey Kodanev e6cfc52516 ip6_vti: adjust vti mtu according to mtu of lower device
[ Upstream commit 53c81e95df ]

LTP/udp6_ipsec_vti tests fail when sending large UDP datagrams over
ip6_vti that require fragmentation and the underlying device has an
MTU smaller than 1500 plus some extra space for headers. This happens
because ip6_vti, by default, sets MTU to ETH_DATA_LEN and not updating
it depending on a destination address or link parameter. Further
attempts to send UDP packets may succeed because pmtu gets updated on
ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG in vti6_err().

In case the lower device has larger MTU size, e.g. 9000, ip6_vti works
but not using the possible maximum size, output packets have 1500 limit.

The above cases require manual MTU setup after ip6_vti creation. However
ip_vti already updates MTU based on lower device with ip_tunnel_bind_dev().

Here is the example when the lower device MTU is set to 9000:

  # ip a sh ltp_ns_veth2
      ltp_ns_veth2@if7: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 ...
        inet 10.0.0.2/24 scope global ltp_ns_veth2
        inet6 fd00::2/64 scope global

  # ip li add vti6 type vti6 local fd00::2 remote fd00::1
  # ip li show vti6
      vti6@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 1500 ...
        link/tunnel6 fd00::2 peer fd00::1

After the patch:
  # ip li add vti6 type vti6 local fd00::2 remote fd00::1
  # ip li show vti6
      vti6@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 8832 ...
        link/tunnel6 fd00::2 peer fd00::1

Reported-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-24 11:01:27 +01:00
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2018-03-21 12:06:45 +01:00
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