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    ipv4: lock mtu in fnhe when received PMTU < net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu · d52e5a7e
    Sabrina Dubroca authored
    Prior to the rework of PMTU information storage in commit
    2c8cec5c ("ipv4: Cache learned PMTU information in inetpeer."),
    when a PMTU event advertising a PMTU smaller than
    net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu was received, we would disable setting the DF
    flag on packets by locking the MTU metric, and set the PMTU to
    net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu.
    
    Since then, we don't disable DF, and set PMTU to
    net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu, so the intermediate router that has this link
    with a small MTU will have to drop the packets.
    
    This patch reestablishes pre-2.6.39 behavior by splitting
    rtable->rt_pmtu into a bitfield with rt_mtu_locked and rt_pmtu.
    rt_mtu_locked indicates that we shouldn't set the DF bit on that path,
    and is checked in ip_dont_fragment().
    
    One possible workaround is to set net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu to a value low
    enough to accommodate the lowest MTU encountered.
    
    Fixes: 2c8cec5c
    
     ("ipv4: Cache learned PMTU information in inetpeer.")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarStefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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