[PATCH 3.14 071/140] ipv6: Limit mtu to 65575 bytes

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-29T05:24:15Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 30f78d8ebf7f514801e71b88a10c948275168518 ]

Francois reported that setting big mtu on loopback device could prevent
tcp sessions making progress.

We do not support (yet ?) IPv6 Jumbograms and cook corrupted packets.

We must limit the IPv6 MTU to (65535 + 40) bytes in theory.

Tested:

ifconfig lo mtu 70000
netperf -H ::1

Before patch : Throughput : 0.05 Mbits

After patch : Throughput : 35484 Mbits

Reported-by: Francois WELLENREITER <f.wellenreiter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
include/net/ip6_route.h | 5 +++++
net/ipv6/route.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/ip6_route.h
+++ b/include/net/ip6_route.h
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ struct route_info {
#define RT6_LOOKUP_F_SRCPREF_PUBLIC 0x00000010
#define RT6_LOOKUP_F_SRCPREF_COA 0x00000020

+/* We do not (yet ?) support IPv6 jumbograms (RFC 2675)
+ * Unlike IPv4, hdr->seg_len doesn't include the IPv6 header
+ */
+#define IP6_MAX_MTU (0xFFFF + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr))
+
/*
* rt6_srcprefs2flags() and rt6_flags2srcprefs() translate
* between IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES socket option values
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ static unsigned int ip6_mtu(const struct
unsigned int mtu = dst_metric_raw(dst, RTAX_MTU);

if (mtu)
- return mtu;
+ goto out;

mtu = IPV6_MIN_MTU;

@@ -1352,7 +1352,8 @@ static unsigned int ip6_mtu(const struct
mtu = idev->cnf.mtu6;
rcu_read_unlock();

- return mtu;
+out:
+ return min_t(unsigned int, mtu, IP6_MAX_MTU);
}

static struct dst_entry *icmp6_dst_gc_list;