netdev - ip_tunnel mtu calculation

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Date:	Sat, 29 Jun 2013 17:57:01 +0300
From:	Timo Teras <timo.teras@....fi>
To:	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ip_tunnel mtu calculation

Hi,

I'm reviewing changes since 3.9 to net-next and observed that, the
tunnel refactoring had the following change in ip_gre xmit path.

In ip_tunnel_xmit() mtu is now calculated as:
        if (df)
                mtu = dst_mtu(&rt->dst) - dev->hard_header_len
                                        - sizeof(struct iphdr);
        else
                mtu = skb_dst(skb) ? dst_mtu(skb_dst(skb)) : dev->mtu;

And it used to be in ip_gre.c: ipgre_tunnel_xmit():
        if (df)
                mtu = dst_mtu(&rt->dst) - dev->hard_header_len - tunnel->hlen;
        else
                mtu = skb_dst(skb) ? dst_mtu(skb_dst(skb)) : dev->mtu;

I notice that tunnel->hlen is replaced with sizeof(struct iphdr), but
in case of GRE those are not the same thing. And the refactored
ip_gre.c does not set hard_header_len either. So it would like the mtu
is now miscalculated (planning to give a full test-spin for net-next
next week).

It seems the tunnel->hlen used to be the full length, including
sizeof(struct iphdr).

But the new, refactored code seems exclude sizeof(struct iphdr) from
the tunnel->hlen. So would the following be appropriate?

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
index 394cebc..ac3a9a1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ void ip_tunnel_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,

 	if (df)
 		mtu = dst_mtu(&rt->dst) - dev->hard_header_len
-					- sizeof(struct iphdr);
+			- tunnel->hlen - sizeof(struct iphdr);
 	else
 		mtu = skb_dst(skb) ? dst_mtu(skb_dst(skb)) : dev->mtu;

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