From: Maciej Żenczykowski <m...@google.com>

This reverts commit 19bda36c4299ce3d7e5bce10bebe01764a655a6d:

| ipv6: add mtu lock check in __ip6_rt_update_pmtu
|
| Prior to this patch, ipv6 didn't do mtu lock check in ip6_update_pmtu.
| It leaded to that mtu lock doesn't really work when receiving the pkt
| of ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG.
|
| This patch is to add mtu lock check in __ip6_rt_update_pmtu just as ipv4
| did in __ip_rt_update_pmtu.

The above reasoning is incorrect.  IPv6 *requires* icmp based pmtu to work.
There's already a comment to this effect elsewhere in the kernel:

  $ git grep -p -B1 -A3 'RTAX_MTU lock'
  net/ipv6/route.c=4813=

  static int rt6_mtu_change_route(struct fib6_info *f6i, void *p_arg)
  ...
    /* In IPv6 pmtu discovery is not optional,
       so that RTAX_MTU lock cannot disable it.
       We still use this lock to block changes
       caused by addrconf/ndisc.
    */

This reverts to the pre-4.9 behaviour.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <m...@google.com>
Fixes: 19bda36c4299 ("ipv6: add mtu lock check in __ip6_rt_update_pmtu")
---
 net/ipv6/route.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 8d418038fe32..ff847a324220 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -2722,8 +2722,10 @@ static void __ip6_rt_update_pmtu(struct dst_entry *dst, 
const struct sock *sk,
        const struct in6_addr *daddr, *saddr;
        struct rt6_info *rt6 = (struct rt6_info *)dst;
 
-       if (dst_metric_locked(dst, RTAX_MTU))
-               return;
+       /* Note: do *NOT* check dst_metric_locked(dst, RTAX_MTU)
+        * IPv6 pmtu discovery isn't optional, so 'mtu lock' cannot disable it.
+        * [see also comment in rt6_mtu_change_route()]
+        */
 
        if (iph) {
                daddr = &iph->daddr;
-- 
2.26.2.526.g744177e7f7-goog

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