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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-04-10 21:23:36 -0700
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2014-05-29 11:38:32 +0200
commit0e6961b3b263e8d4278607f00889575f1eb75bf3 (patch)
tree68830ca14f2a4cbcad4627d726d1f8db1edc8818 /net
parent262cacfba2c885aa7b45433e824eb67636323c65 (diff)
ipv6: Limit mtu to 65575 bytes
[ Upstream commit 30f78d8ebf7f514801e71b88a10c948275168518 ] Francois reported that setting big mtu on loopback device could prevent tcp sessions making progress. We do not support (yet ?) IPv6 Jumbograms and cook corrupted packets. We must limit the IPv6 MTU to (65535 + 40) bytes in theory. Tested: ifconfig lo mtu 70000 netperf -H ::1 Before patch : Throughput : 0.05 Mbits After patch : Throughput : 35484 Mbits Reported-by: Francois WELLENREITER <f.wellenreiter@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/route.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 77f81beabbd..b4bb6a29aa1 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ static unsigned int ip6_mtu(const struct dst_entry *dst)
unsigned int mtu = dst_metric_raw(dst, RTAX_MTU);
if (mtu)
- return mtu;
+ goto out;
mtu = IPV6_MIN_MTU;
@@ -1339,7 +1339,8 @@ static unsigned int ip6_mtu(const struct dst_entry *dst)
mtu = idev->cnf.mtu6;
rcu_read_unlock();
- return mtu;
+out:
+ return min_t(unsigned int, mtu, IP6_MAX_MTU);
}
static struct dst_entry *icmp6_dst_gc_list;