This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
geneve: Relax MTU constraints
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
geneve-relax-mtu-constraints.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Fri Jun 17 11:18:18 PDT 2016
From: David Wragg <david@weave.works>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 18:58:14 -0400
Subject: geneve: Relax MTU constraints
From: David Wragg <david@weave.works>
[ Upstream commit 55e5bfb53cff286c1c1ff49f51325dc15c7fea63 ]
Allow the MTU of geneve devices to be set to large values, in order to
exploit underlying networks with larger frame sizes.
GENEVE does not have a fixed encapsulation overhead (an openvswitch
rule can add variable length options), so there is no relevant maximum
MTU to enforce. A maximum of IP_MAX_MTU is used instead.
Encapsulated packets that are too big for the underlying network will
get dropped on the floor.
Signed-off-by: David Wragg <david@weave.works>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/geneve.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/geneve.c
+++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c
@@ -994,6 +994,17 @@ static netdev_tx_t geneve_xmit(struct sk
return geneve_xmit_skb(skb, dev, info);
}
+static int geneve_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
+{
+ /* GENEVE overhead is not fixed, so we can't enforce a more
+ * precise max MTU.
+ */
+ if (new_mtu < 68 || new_mtu > IP_MAX_MTU)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ dev->mtu = new_mtu;
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int geneve_fill_metadata_dst(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct ip_tunnel_info *info = skb_tunnel_info(skb);
@@ -1038,7 +1049,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops genev
.ndo_stop = geneve_stop,
.ndo_start_xmit = geneve_xmit,
.ndo_get_stats64 = ip_tunnel_get_stats64,
- .ndo_change_mtu = eth_change_mtu,
+ .ndo_change_mtu = geneve_change_mtu,
.ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
.ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
.ndo_fill_metadata_dst = geneve_fill_metadata_dst,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david@weave.works are
queue-4.4/geneve-relax-mtu-constraints.patch
queue-4.4/vxlan-relax-mtu-constraints.patch
queue-4.4/vxlan-gre-geneve-set-a-large-mtu-on-ovs-created-tunnel-devices.patch
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