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Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/route.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/route.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index d6fe7646a8f..e307517cbdd 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1561,14 +1561,13 @@ out: * i.e. Path MTU discovery */ -void rt6_pmtu_discovery(struct in6_addr *daddr, struct in6_addr *saddr, - struct net_device *dev, u32 pmtu) +static void rt6_do_pmtu_disc(struct in6_addr *daddr, struct in6_addr *saddr, + struct net *net, u32 pmtu, int ifindex) { struct rt6_info *rt, *nrt; - struct net *net = dev_net(dev); int allfrag = 0; - rt = rt6_lookup(net, daddr, saddr, dev->ifindex, 0); + rt = rt6_lookup(net, daddr, saddr, ifindex, 0); if (rt == NULL) return; @@ -1636,6 +1635,27 @@ out: dst_release(&rt->u.dst); } +void rt6_pmtu_discovery(struct in6_addr *daddr, struct in6_addr *saddr, + struct net_device *dev, u32 pmtu) +{ + struct net *net = dev_net(dev); + + /* + * RFC 1981 states that a node "MUST reduce the size of the packets it + * is sending along the path" that caused the Packet Too Big message. + * Since it's not possible in the general case to determine which + * interface was used to send the original packet, we update the MTU + * on the interface that will be used to send future packets. We also + * update the MTU on the interface that received the Packet Too Big in + * case the original packet was forced out that interface with + * SO_BINDTODEVICE or similar. This is the next best thing to the + * correct behaviour, which would be to update the MTU on all + * interfaces. + */ + rt6_do_pmtu_disc(daddr, saddr, net, pmtu, 0); + rt6_do_pmtu_disc(daddr, saddr, net, pmtu, dev->ifindex); +} + /* * Misc support functions */ |