netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ibmveth: Fix max MTU limit

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Message-Id: <20200619.202229.791079743124441257.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:22:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ibmveth: Fix max MTU limit

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:43:46 -0500

> The max MTU limit defined for ibmveth is not accounting for
> virtual ethernet buffer overhead, which is twenty-two additional
> bytes set aside for the ethernet header and eight additional bytes
> of an opaque handle reserved for use by the hypervisor. Update the
> max MTU to reflect this overhead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>

Applied with Fixes: tags added and queued up for -stable.

Thank you.