This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ipv6: Reflect MTU changes on PMTU of exceptions for MTU-less routes

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ipv6-reflect-mtu-changes-on-pmtu-of-exceptions-for-mtu-less-routes.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:37:51 CEST 2018

From: Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 11:10:19 +0100 Subject: ipv6: Reflect MTU changes on PMTU of exceptions for MTU-less routes

From: Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com

[ Upstream commit e9fa1495d738e34fcec88a3d2ec9101a9ee5b310 ]

Currently, administrative MTU changes on a given netdevice are not reflected on route exceptions for MTU-less routes, with a set PMTU value, for that device:

# ip -6 route get 2001:db8::b 2001:db8::b from :: dev vti_a proto kernel src 2001:db8::a metric 256 pref medium # ping6 -c 1 -q -s10000 2001:db8::b > /dev/null # ip netns exec a ip -6 route get 2001:db8::b 2001:db8::b from :: dev vti_a src 2001:db8::a metric 0 cache expires 571sec mtu 4926 pref medium # ip link set dev vti_a mtu 3000 # ip -6 route get 2001:db8::b 2001:db8::b from :: dev vti_a src 2001:db8::a metric 0 cache expires 571sec mtu 4926 pref medium # ip link set dev vti_a mtu 9000 # ip -6 route get 2001:db8::b 2001:db8::b from :: dev vti_a src 2001:db8::a metric 0 cache expires 571sec mtu 4926 pref medium

The first issue is that since commit fb56be83e43d ("net-ipv6: on device mtu change do not add mtu to mtu-less routes") we don't call rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu() from rt6_mtu_change_route(), which handles administrative MTU changes, if the regular route is MTU-less.

However, PMTU exceptions should be always updated, as long as RTAX_MTU is not locked. Keep the check for MTU-less main route, as introduced by that commit, but, for exceptions, call rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu() regardless of that check.

Once that is fixed, one problem remains: MTU changes are not reflected if the new MTU is higher than the previous one, because rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu() doesn't allow that. We should instead allow PMTU increase if the old PMTU matches the local MTU, as that implies that the old MTU was the lowest in the path, and PMTU discovery might lead to different results.

The existing check in rt6_mtu_change_route() correctly took that case into account (for regular routes only), so factor it out and re-use it also in rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu().

While at it, fix comments style and grammar, and try to be a bit more descriptive.

Reported-by: Xiumei Mu xmu@redhat.com Fixes: fb56be83e43d ("net-ipv6: on device mtu change do not add mtu to mtu-less routes") Fixes: f5bbe7ee79c2 ("ipv6: prepare rt6_mtu_change() for exception table") Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com Acked-by: David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/route.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1510,7 +1510,30 @@ static void rt6_exceptions_remove_prefsr } }

-static void rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu(struct rt6_info *rt, int mtu) +static bool rt6_mtu_change_route_allowed(struct inet6_dev *idev, + struct rt6_info *rt, int mtu) +{ + /* If the new MTU is lower than the route PMTU, this new MTU will be the + * lowest MTU in the path: always allow updating the route PMTU to + * reflect PMTU decreases. + * + * If the new MTU is higher, and the route PMTU is equal to the local + * MTU, this means the old MTU is the lowest in the path, so allow + * updating it: if other nodes now have lower MTUs, PMTU discovery will + * handle this. + */ + + if (dst_mtu(&rt->dst) >= mtu) + return true; + + if (dst_mtu(&rt->dst) == idev->cnf.mtu6) + return true; + + return false; +} + +static void rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu(struct inet6_dev *idev, + struct rt6_info *rt, int mtu) { struct rt6_exception_bucket *bucket; struct rt6_exception *rt6_ex; @@ -1519,20 +1542,22 @@ static void rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu(s bucket = rcu_dereference_protected(rt->rt6i_exception_bucket, lockdep_is_held(&rt6_exception_lock));

- if (bucket) { - for (i = 0; i < FIB6_EXCEPTION_BUCKET_SIZE; i++) { - hlist_for_each_entry(rt6_ex, &bucket->chain, hlist) { - struct rt6_info *entry = rt6_ex->rt6i; - /* For RTF_CACHE with rt6i_pmtu == 0 - * (i.e. a redirected route), - * the metrics of its rt->dst.from has already - * been updated. - */ - if (entry->rt6i_pmtu && entry->rt6i_pmtu > mtu) - entry->rt6i_pmtu = mtu; - } - bucket++; + if (!bucket) + return; + + for (i = 0; i < FIB6_EXCEPTION_BUCKET_SIZE; i++) { + hlist_for_each_entry(rt6_ex, &bucket->chain, hlist) { + struct rt6_info *entry = rt6_ex->rt6i; + + /* For RTF_CACHE with rt6i_pmtu == 0 (i.e. a redirected + * route), the metrics of its rt->dst.from have already + * been updated. + */ + if (entry->rt6i_pmtu && + rt6_mtu_change_route_allowed(idev, entry, mtu)) + entry->rt6i_pmtu = mtu; } + bucket++; } }

@@ -3521,25 +3546,13 @@ static int rt6_mtu_change_route(struct r Since RFC 1981 doesn't include administrative MTU increase update PMTU increase is a MUST. (i.e. jumbo frame) */ - /* - If new MTU is less than route PMTU, this new MTU will be the - lowest MTU in the path, update the route PMTU to reflect PMTU - decreases; if new MTU is greater than route PMTU, and the - old MTU is the lowest MTU in the path, update the route PMTU - to reflect the increase. In this case if the other nodes' MTU - also have the lowest MTU, TOO BIG MESSAGE will be lead to - PMTU discovery. - */ if (rt->dst.dev == arg->dev && - dst_metric_raw(&rt->dst, RTAX_MTU) && !dst_metric_locked(&rt->dst, RTAX_MTU)) { spin_lock_bh(&rt6_exception_lock); - if (dst_mtu(&rt->dst) >= arg->mtu || - (dst_mtu(&rt->dst) < arg->mtu && - dst_mtu(&rt->dst) == idev->cnf.mtu6)) { + if (dst_metric_raw(&rt->dst, RTAX_MTU) && + rt6_mtu_change_route_allowed(idev, rt, arg->mtu)) dst_metric_set(&rt->dst, RTAX_MTU, arg->mtu); - } - rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu(rt, arg->mtu); + rt6_exceptions_update_pmtu(idev, rt, arg->mtu); spin_unlock_bh(&rt6_exception_lock); } return 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sbrivio@redhat.com are

queue-4.15/ipv6-fix-access-to-non-linear-packet-in-ndisc_fill_redirect_hdr_option.patch queue-4.15/ipv6-old_dport-should-be-a-__be16-in-__ip6_datagram_connect.patch queue-4.15/ipv6-reflect-mtu-changes-on-pmtu-of-exceptions-for-mtu-less-routes.patch