There is a case in connected UDP socket such that getsockopt(IPV6_MTU) will return a stale MTU value. The reproducible sequence could be the following: 1. Create a connected UDP socket 2. Send some datagrams out 3. Receive a ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG 4. No new outgoing datagrams to trigger the sk_dst_check() logic to update the sk->sk_dst_cache. 5. getsockopt(IPV6_MTU) returns the mtu from the invalid sk->sk_dst_cache instead of the newly created RTF_CACHE clone.
Patch 1 and 2 are the prep work. Patch 3 and 4 are the fixes.