netdev - [PATCH net] ip6_gre: update dst pmtu if dev mtu has been updated by toobig in __gre6

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Message-Id: <a5c60f03402e5b0b257c5b4bb8f6a629d8a9ac38.1509017237.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:27:17 +0800
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, "xeb@...l.ru" <xeb@...l.ru>
Subject: [PATCH net] ip6_gre: update dst pmtu if dev mtu has been updated by toobig in __gre6_xmit

When receiving a Toobig icmpv6 packet, ip6gre_err would just set
tunnel dev's mtu, that's not enough. For skb_dst(skb)'s pmtu may
still be using the old value, it has no chance to be updated with
tunnel dev's mtu.

Jianlin found this issue by reducing route's mtu while running
netperf, the performance went to 0.

ip6ip6 and ip4ip6 tunnel can work well with this, as they lookup
the upper dst and update_pmtu it's pmtu or icmpv6_send a Toobig
to upper socket after setting tunnel dev's mtu.

We couldn't do that for ip6_gre, as gre's inner packet could be
any protocol, it's difficult to handle them (like lookup upper
dst) in a good way.

So this patch is to fix it by updating skb_dst(skb)'s pmtu when
dev->mtu < skb_dst(skb)'s pmtu in tx path. It's safe to do this
update there, as usually dev->mtu <= skb_dst(skb)'s pmtu and no
performance regression can be caused by this.

Fixes: c12b395a4664 ("gre: Support GRE over IPv6")
Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index fb595e8..59c121b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -503,8 +503,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t __gre6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			       __u32 *pmtu, __be16 proto)
 {
 	struct ip6_tnl *tunnel = netdev_priv(dev);
-	__be16 protocol = (dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER) ?
-			  htons(ETH_P_TEB) : proto;
+	struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
+	__be16 protocol;

 	if (dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER)
 		IPCB(skb)->flags = 0;
@@ -518,9 +518,14 @@ static netdev_tx_t __gre6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		tunnel->o_seqno++;

 	/* Push GRE header. */
+	protocol = (dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER) ? htons(ETH_P_TEB) : proto;
 	gre_build_header(skb, tunnel->tun_hlen, tunnel->parms.o_flags,
 			 protocol, tunnel->parms.o_key, htonl(tunnel->o_seqno));

+	/* TooBig packet may have updated dst->dev's mtu */
+	if (dst && dst_mtu(dst) > dst->dev->mtu)
+		dst->ops->update_pmtu(dst, NULL, skb, dst->dev->mtu);
+
 	return ip6_tnl_xmit(skb, dev, dsfield, fl6, encap_limit, pmtu,
 			    NEXTHDR_GRE);
 }
-- 
2.1.0