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Message-ID: <20220126064100.GN1223722@gauss3.secunet.de> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 07:41:00 +0100 From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com> To: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz> CC: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, "Mike Maloney" <maloneykernel@...il.com>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm: fix MTU regression On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:22:53AM +0100, Jiri Bohac wrote: > Commit 749439bfac6e1a2932c582e2699f91d329658196 ("ipv6: fix udpv6 > sendmsg crash caused by too small MTU") breaks PMTU for xfrm. > > A Packet Too Big ICMPv6 message received in response to an ESP > packet will prevent all further communication through the tunnel > if the reported MTU minus the ESP overhead is smaller than 1280. > > E.g. in a case of a tunnel-mode ESP with sha256/aes the overhead > is 92 bytes. Receiving a PTB with MTU of 1371 or less will result > in all further packets in the tunnel dropped. A ping through the > tunnel fails with "ping: sendmsg: Invalid argument". > > Apparently the MTU on the xfrm route is smaller than 1280 and > fails the check inside ip6_setup_cork() added by 749439bf. > > We found this by debugging USGv6/ipv6ready failures. Failing > tests are: "Phase-2 Interoperability Test Scenario IPsec" / > 5.3.11 and 5.4.11 (Tunnel Mode: Fragmentation). > > Commit b515d2637276a3810d6595e10ab02c13bfd0b63a ("xfrm: > xfrm_state_mtu should return at least 1280 for ipv6") attempted > to fix this but caused another regression in TCP MSS calculations > and had to be reverted. > > The patch below fixes the situation by dropping the MTU > check and instead checking for the underflows described in the > 749439bf commit message. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz> > Fixes: 749439bfac6e ("ipv6: fix udpv6 sendmsg crash caused by too small MTU") Applied to the ipsec tree, thanks Jiri!
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