netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/3] ipv6: remove dst

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:06:05 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Yan Zhai <yan@...udflare.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Aya Levin <ayal@...dia.com>, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	kernel-team@...udflare.com, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, 
	Alexander H Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/3] ipv6: remove dst_allfrag test on ipv6 output

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 7:32 AM Yan Zhai <yan@...udflare.com> wrote:
>
> dst_allfrag was added before the first git commit:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bk-commits-head@vger.kernel.org/msg03399.html
>
> The feature would send packets to the fragmentation path if a box
> receives a PMTU value with less than 1280 byte. However, since commit
> 9d289715eb5c ("ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280"), such
> message would be simply discarded. The feature flag is neither supported
> in iproute2 utility. In theory one can still manipulate it with direct
> netlink message, but it is not ideal because it was based on obsoleted
> guidance of RFC-2460 (replaced by RFC-8200).
>
> The feature test would always return false at the moment, so remove it
> from the output path.

What about other callers of dst_allfrag() ?

This feature seems broken atm.