On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:49:19PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:40:32AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > This change makes it so that we use icmpv6_send to report PMTU issues back > > into tunnels in the case that the resulting packet is larger than the MTU > > of the outgoing interface. Previously xfrm_local_error was being used in > > this case, however this was resulting in no changes, I suspect due to the > > fact that the tunnel itself was being kept out of the loop. > > > > This patch fixes PMTU problems seen on ip6_vti tunnels and is based on the > > behavior seen if the socket was orphaned. Instead of requiring the socket > > to be orphaned this patch simply defaults to using icmpv6_send in the case > > that the frame came though a tunnel. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Does this still work with normal tunnel mode and identical inner > and outer addresses? I recall we used to have a bug where in that > situation the kernel would interpret the ICMP message as a reduction > in outer MTU and thus resulting in a loop where the MTU keeps > getting smaller. Right, I think this reintroduces a bug that I fixed some years ago with commit dd767856a36e ("xfrm6: Don't call icmpv6_send on local error") -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html