netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: use the pmtu from the icmp packet to update transport pathmtu

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Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:55:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: use the pmtu from the icmp packet to update
 transport pathmtu

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:58:29 +0800

> Other than asoc pmtu sync from all transports, sctp_assoc_sync_pmtu
> is also processing transport pmtu_pending by icmp packets. But it's
> meaningless to use sctp_dst_mtu(t->dst) as new pmtu for a transport.
> 
> The right pmtu value should come from the icmp packet, and it would
> be saved into transport->mtu_info in this patch and used later when
> the pmtu sync happens in sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc or sctp_packet_config.
> 
> Besides, without this patch, as pmtu can only be updated correctly
> when receiving a icmp packet and no place is holding sock lock, it
> will take long time if the sock is busy with sending packets.
> 
> Note that it doesn't process transport->mtu_info in .release_cb(),
> as there is no enough information for pmtu update, like for which
> asoc or transport. It is not worth traversing all asocs to check
> pmtu_pending. So unlike tcp, sctp does this in tx path, for which
> mtu_info needs to be atomic_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied.