netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: properly update pmtu

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Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:16:16 +0200
From:	Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@...tever-company.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: properly update pmtu

Hi,

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

> ip_rt_update_pmtu() calls dst_set_expires() to rearm a new expiration,
> but dst_set_expires() does nothing because dst.expires is already set.
>
> It seems we want to set the expires field to a new value, regardless
> of prior one.
>
> With help from Julian Anastasov.
>
> Reported-by: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@...tever-company.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> CC: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>

Tested-by: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@...tever-company.com>

I confirm this corrects the issue for me. I tested this on 3 machines
with 2 different hw config that all previously exhibited the issue
short after boot and now they've been running with this version of the
patch for hours without problems.

@Eric: Thanks for looking into this.


Cheers,

    Sylvain
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