netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Allow the MTU of ipip6 tunnel to be set below 1280

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Message-ID: <20130927105856.GF28287@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:58:56 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Oussama Ghorbel <oghorbell@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Allow the MTU of ipip6 tunnel to be set below 1280

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:45:48AM +0100, Oussama Ghorbel wrote:
> The ip6_tunnel.c module would be then dependent on ip_tunnel.c and may
> be it would not be good thing?

It could just be a static inline in some shared header. So there would
be no compile-time dependency.

> As I have check in v3.10 there is no call from ip6_tunnel to ip_tunnel...
> 
> For information, there is no check for the maximum MTU for ipv4 in the
> patch as this is not done for ipv6.

I understand, but it would be better to limit the MTU here. There is a
(non-jumo) IPV6_MAXPLEN constant.

Looking through the source it seems grev6 does actually check this,
so it would not hurt adding them here, too.

Otherwise, I think your patch is fine.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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