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Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:44:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Herbert To: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, justin.iurman@uliege.be, willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, pabeni@redhat.com Cc: Tom Herbert , Justin Iurman Subject: [net-next v8 04/10] ipv6: Set HBH and DestOpt limits to 2 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:43:27 -0700 Message-ID: <20260314174333.46406-5-tom@herbertland.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260314174333.46406-1-tom@herbertland.com> References: <20260314174333.46406-1-tom@herbertland.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Set the default limits of non-padding Hop-by-Hop and Destination options to 2. This means that if a packet contains more than two non-padding options then it will be dropped. The previous limit was 8, but that was too liberal considering that the stack only support two Destination Options and the most Hop-by-Hop options likely to ever be in the same packet are IOAM and JUMBO. The limit can be increased via sysctl for private use and experimentation. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Reviewed-by: Justin Iurman --- include/net/ipv6.h | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/net/ipv6.h b/include/net/ipv6.h index 0958cc5c6ec3..1b9819ad0c34 100644 --- a/include/net/ipv6.h +++ b/include/net/ipv6.h @@ -84,9 +84,12 @@ struct ip_tunnel_info; * silently discarded. */ -/* Default limits for Hop-by-Hop and Destination options */ -#define IP6_DEFAULT_MAX_DST_OPTS_CNT 8 -#define IP6_DEFAULT_MAX_HBH_OPTS_CNT 8 +/* Default limits for Hop-by-Hop and Destination non-padding options. The + * default value for both is 2. This sets a limit at two non-padding options + * (see sysctl documentation) + */ +#define IP6_DEFAULT_MAX_DST_OPTS_CNT 2 +#define IP6_DEFAULT_MAX_HBH_OPTS_CNT 2 #define IP6_DEFAULT_MAX_DST_OPTS_LEN INT_MAX /* No limit */ #define IP6_DEFAULT_MAX_HBH_OPTS_LEN INT_MAX /* No limit */ -- 2.43.0