netdev - [PATCH] tcp: fix TCP_MAXSEG for established IPv6 passive sockets

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Date:	Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:45:47 -0400
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@...gle.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi,
	maze@...gle.com, Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: fix TCP_MAXSEG for established IPv6 passive sockets

Commit f5fff5d forgot to fix TCP_MAXSEG behavior IPv6 sockets, so IPv6
TCP server sockets that used TCP_MAXSEG would find that the advmss of
child sockets would be incorrect. This commit mirrors the advmss logic
from tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock. Eventually this
logic should probably be shared between IPv4 and IPv6, but this at
least fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
---
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 86cfe60..98256cf 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1383,6 +1383,10 @@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	tcp_mtup_init(newsk);
 	tcp_sync_mss(newsk, dst_mtu(dst));
 	newtp->advmss = dst_metric_advmss(dst);
+	if (tcp_sk(sk)->rx_opt.user_mss &&
+	    tcp_sk(sk)->rx_opt.user_mss < newtp->advmss)
+		newtp->advmss = tcp_sk(sk)->rx_opt.user_mss;
+
 	tcp_initialize_rcv_mss(newsk);
 	if (tcp_rsk(req)->snt_synack)
 		tcp_valid_rtt_meas(newsk,
-- 
1.7.7.3

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