linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v6] ipv6: add IFLA_INET6_RA

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Date:   Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:41:53 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@...iatek.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, rocco.yue@...il.com,
        chao.song@...iatek.com, zhuoliang.zhang@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6] ipv6: add IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to expose mtu
 value

On 8/27/21 8:04 AM, Rocco Yue wrote:
> The kernel provides a "/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>/mtu"
> file, which can temporarily record the mtu value of the last
> received RA message when the RA mtu value is lower than the
> interface mtu, but this proc has following limitations:
> 
> (1) when the interface mtu (/sys/class/net/<iface>/mtu) is
> updeated, mtu6 (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>/mtu) will
> be updated to the value of interface mtu;
> (2) mtu6 (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>/mtu) only affect
> ipv6 connection, and not affect ipv4.
> 
> Therefore, when the mtu option is carried in the RA message,
> there will be a problem that the user sometimes cannot obtain
> RA mtu value correctly by reading mtu6.
> 
> After this patch set, if a RA message carries the mtu option,
> you can send a netlink msg which nlmsg_type is RTM_GETLINK,
> and then by parsing the attribute of IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to
> get the mtu value carried in the RA message received on the
> inet6 device. In addition, you can also get a link notification
> when ra_mtu is updated so it doesn't have to poll.
> 
> In this way, if the MTU values that the device receives from
> the network in the PCO IPv4 and the RA IPv6 procedures are
> different, the user can obtain the correct ipv6 ra_mtu value
> and compare the value of ra_mtu and ipv4 mtu, then the device
> can use the lower MTU value for both IPv4 and IPv6.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@...iatek.com>
> ---
>  include/net/if_inet6.h             |  2 ++
>  include/uapi/linux/if_link.h       |  1 +
>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c                | 10 ++++++++++
>  net/ipv6/ndisc.c                   | 17 +++++++++++------
>  tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>