commit 82612de1c9 upstream.
After commit f6cc9c054e, the following conf is broken (note that the
default loopback mtu is 65536, ie IP_MAX_MTU + 1):
$ ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local 10.125.0.1 remote 10.125.0.2 dev lo
add tunnel "gre0" failed: Invalid argument
$ ip l a type dummy
$ ip l s dummy1 up
$ ip l s dummy1 mtu 65535
$ ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local 10.125.0.1 remote 10.125.0.2 dev dummy1
add tunnel "gre0" failed: Invalid argument
dev_set_mtu() doesn't allow to set a mtu which is too large.
First, let's cap the mtu returned by ip_tunnel_bind_dev(). Second, remove
the magic value 0xFFF8 and use IP_MAX_MTU instead.
0xFFF8 seems to be there for ages, I don't know why this value was used.
With a recent kernel, it's also possible to set a mtu > IP_MAX_MTU:
$ ip l s dummy1 mtu 66000
After that patch, it's also possible to bind an ip tunnel on that kind of
interface.
CC: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
CC: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netdev-vger-cvs.git/commit/?id=e5afd356a411a
Fixes: f6cc9c054e ("ip_tunnel: Emit events for post-register MTU changes")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
- Drop change in ip_tunnel_create()
- Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
95bd9e47cd