From: Stefano Brivio <sbri...@redhat.com>
We shouldn't allow a tunnel to have IP_MAX_MTU as MTU, because
another IPv6 header is going on top of our packets. Without this
patch, we might end up building packets bigger than IP_MAX_MTU.
Fixes: b96f9afee4eb ("ipv4/6: use core net MTU range checking")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbri...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
index 971175142e14..ce18cd20389d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ static void vti6_dev_setup(struct net_device *dev)
dev->type = ARPHRD_TUNNEL6;
dev->min_mtu = IPV6_MIN_MTU;
- dev->max_mtu = IP_MAX_MTU;
+ dev->max_mtu = IP_MAX_MTU - sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
dev->flags |= IFF_NOARP;
dev->addr_len = sizeof(struct in6_addr);
netif_keep_dst(dev);
--
2.14.1
