This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap
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:
ip6_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.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 Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:25:09 +0800
Subject: ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2c52129a7d74d017320804c6928de770815c5f4a ]
The same fix as the patch "ip_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for
ipgre tap" is also needed for ip6_gre.
Fixes: 61e84623ace3 ("net: centralize net_device min/max MTU checking")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1335,6 +1335,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tap_setup(struct net_
ether_setup(dev);
+ dev->max_mtu = 0;
dev->netdev_ops = &ip6gre_tap_netdev_ops;
dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
dev->priv_destructor = ip6gre_dev_free;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/ip_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch
queue-4.14/ip6_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch
queue-4.14/ip6_tunnel-allow-ip6gre-dev-mtu-to-be-set-below-1280.patch
queue-4.14/vxlan-update-skb-dst-pmtu-on-tx-path.patch
queue-4.14/ip6_tunnel-get-the-min-mtu-properly-in-ip6_tnl_xmit.patch
queue-4.14/sctp-fix-the-issue-that-a-__u16-variable-may-overflow-in-sctp_ulpq_renege.patch