netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] ip[6] tunnels: fix mtu calculations

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Date:   Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:57:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:     petrm@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] ip[6] tunnels: fix mtu calculations

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:59:31 +0200

> The first patch restores the possibility to bind an ip4 tunnel to an
> interface whith a large mtu.
> The second patch was spotted after the first fix. I also target it to net
> because it fixes the max mtu value that can be used for ipv6 tunnels.
> 
> v2: remove the 0xfff8 in ip_tunnel_newlink()

Series applied and queued up for -stable.

I think the 0xfff8 value might come from the requirement that ipv6
fragments need to be a multiple of 8 bytes long.