Commit 128bb975dc3c ("ip6_gre: init dev->mtu and dev->hard_header_len correctly") fixed IFLA_MTU ignored on NEWLINK for ip6_gre. The same mtu fix is also needed for sit.
Note that dev->hard_header_len setting for sit works fine, no need to fix it. sit is actually ipv4 tunnel, it can't call ip6_tnl_change_mtu to set mtu. Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <ji...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com> --- net/ipv6/sit.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/sit.c b/net/ipv6/sit.c index 3a1775a..0195598 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/sit.c +++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c @@ -1578,6 +1578,13 @@ static int ipip6_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, if (err < 0) return err; + if (tb[IFLA_MTU]) { + u32 mtu = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_MTU]); + + if (mtu >= IPV6_MIN_MTU && mtu <= 0xFFF8 - dev->hard_header_len) + dev->mtu = mtu; + } + #ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_SIT_6RD if (ipip6_netlink_6rd_parms(data, &ip6rd)) err = ipip6_tunnel_update_6rd(nt, &ip6rd); -- 2.1.0