netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ip6_gre: init dev->mtu and dev->hard_header

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:32:14 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alexey.kodanev@...cle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ip6_gre: init dev->mtu and dev->hard_header_len
 correctly

From: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:02:54 +0300

> For ip6gretap, reset dev->mtu to zero in ip6gre_tap_setup()
> after ether_setup(), in order for it to work with the new check
> in ip6gre_tunnel_init_common().

This part is error prone.  Please instead add a new boolean argument
to ip6gre_tunnel_init_common: "bool set_mtu".  Set it to true when
it is invoked from ip6gre_tap_init() and false when it is invoked
from ip6gre_tunnel_init().

Thank you.