netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] ipv4: Update pmtu informations on inetpeer only for output routes

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Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:12:44 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ipv4: Update pmtu informations on inetpeer only
 for output routes

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:36:30PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 
> What I think you can do to solve this problem is explicitly use
> dst->ops->default_mtu() in ip_forward() instead of dst_mtu().
> 

Unfortunately, that's not sufficient. We need to do an input route
check in ip_skb_dst_mtu() at least to get plain ipv4 to work,
IPsec is still broken then. So I assume most (all?) callers of
dst_mtu() don't want to get the cached PMTU for input routes on ipv4.

So for the moment I'm thinking about adding an ip_dst_mtu()
function that returns dst->ops->default_mtu() for input routes
and dst_mtu() for output routes. Then we could convert the
dst_mtu() users in net/ipv4/ over to this one.

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