netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix the upper MTU limit in ipv6 GRE tunnel

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Message-ID: <20131005140636.GA25076@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Sat, 5 Oct 2013 16:06:36 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Oussama Ghorbel <ou.ghorbel@...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] Fix the upper MTU limit in ipv6 GRE tunnel

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Oussama Ghorbel wrote:
> Unlike ipv4, the struct member hlen holds the length of the GRE and ipv6
> headers. This length is also counted in dev->hard_header_len.
> Perhaps, it's more clean to modify the hlen to count only the GRE header
> without ipv6 header as the variable name suggest, but the simple way to fix
> this without regression risk is simply modify the calculation of the limit
> in ip6gre_tunnel_change_mtu function.
> Verified in kernel version v3.11.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oussama Ghorbel <ou.ghorbel@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> index 90747f1..41487ab 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
> @@ -1175,9 +1175,8 @@ done:
>  
>  static int ip6gre_tunnel_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
>  {
> -	struct ip6_tnl *tunnel = netdev_priv(dev);
>  	if (new_mtu < 68 ||
> -	    new_mtu > 0xFFF8 - dev->hard_header_len - tunnel->hlen)
> +	    new_mtu > 0xFFF8 - dev->hard_header_len)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	dev->mtu = new_mtu;
>  	return 0;

Hmmm...

dev->hard_header_len is initialized to LL_MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)
+ 4 but won't include the additional head space needed for GRE_SEQ, GRE_KEY
etc. if at time of tunnel creation the routing table did not had a good guess
for the outgoing device.

To make this correct we would have to refactor the usage of the variables a
bit as is done in ipv4/ip_tunnel.c. The safest thing would be to leave this
check as-is currently although we exclude some allowed mtus.

Perhaps you want to take a look how to achieve that? ;)

Greetings,

  Hannes

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