This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vxlan: restore dev->mtu setting based on lower device
to the 4.14-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:
vxlan-restore-dev-mtu-setting-based-on-lower-device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Sun Dec 31 11:12:48 CET 2017
From: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:20:00 +0300
Subject: vxlan: restore dev->mtu setting based on lower device
From: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f870c1ff65a6d1f3a083f277280802ee09a5b44d ]
Stefano Brivio says:
Commit a985343ba906 ("vxlan: refactor verification and
application of configuration") introduced a change in the
behaviour of initial MTU setting: earlier, the MTU for a link
created on top of a given lower device, without an initial MTU
specification, was set to the MTU of the lower device minus
headroom as a result of this path in vxlan_dev_configure():
if (!conf->mtu)
dev->mtu = lowerdev->mtu -
(use_ipv6 ? VXLAN6_HEADROOM : VXLAN_HEADROOM);
which is now gone. Now, the initial MTU, in absence of a
configured value, is simply set by ether_setup() to ETH_DATA_LEN
(1500 bytes).
This breaks userspace expectations in case the MTU of
the lower device is higher than 1500 bytes minus headroom.
This patch restores the previous behaviour on newlink operation. Since
max_mtu can be negative and we update dev->mtu directly, also check it
for valid minimum.
Reported-by: Junhan Yan <juyan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a985343ba906 ("vxlan: refactor verification and application of configuration")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/vxlan.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -3105,6 +3105,11 @@ static void vxlan_config_apply(struct ne
max_mtu = lowerdev->mtu - (use_ipv6 ? VXLAN6_HEADROOM :
VXLAN_HEADROOM);
+ if (max_mtu < ETH_MIN_MTU)
+ max_mtu = ETH_MIN_MTU;
+
+ if (!changelink && !conf->mtu)
+ dev->mtu = max_mtu;
}
if (dev->mtu > max_mtu)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/vxlan-restore-dev-mtu-setting-based-on-lower-device.patch
queue-4.14/ip6_gre-fix-device-features-for-ioctl-setup.patch