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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Cc: network dev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: ip6_append_data_mtu do not handle the mtu of the second fragment properly
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:49:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140311144906.GA29404@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394512309-8823-1-git-send-email-lucien.xin@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:31:49PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> -			*mtu = min(*mtu, pmtuprobe ?
> -				   rt->dst.dev->mtu :
> -				   dst_mtu(rt->dst.path));
> +			*mtu = pmtuprobe ? rt->dst.dev->mtu :
> +				   dst_mtu(rt->dst.path);

Sorry, that is not correct:

The min() protects the mtu going over np->frag_size (if set). In case we
remove the min we would fallback to dev->mtu or dst_mtu and thus this could
lead to a situation where the first fragment respects frag_size but second
not. This confuses ip6_append_data and would lead to a crash.

I am thinking about changing this to

min(*mtu + rt->dst.header_len, pmtuprobe ? rt->dst.dev->mtu : dst_mtu(rt->dst.path))

or we pass the np directly and test for frag_size again.

Good catch which should be fixed. Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-11 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-11  4:31 [PATCH] ipv6: ip6_append_data_mtu do not handle the mtu of the second fragment properly Xin Long
2014-03-11 14:49 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2014-03-12  2:40   ` lucien xin
2014-03-12 10:26     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-13  5:38       ` lucien xin
2014-03-15 15:55         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-16  4:50           ` lucien xin

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