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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2014-04-10 21:23:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2014-06-09 13:28:56 +0100 |
| commit | 5976aed862c07c698554edb89955f3f554a0921e (patch) | |
| tree | 997777d6dc5695e90e56d0261ac9c3f6eab1aecf /net | |
| parent | b14b14043142372ce357a6ca556f575e130997a8 (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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/route.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 39e11f923a73..782f67a4f568 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ 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; @@ -1066,7 +1066,8 @@ 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; |