linux/include
Guillaume Nault e9697e2eff l2tp: ignore L2TP_ATTR_MTU
This attribute's handling is broken. It can only be used when creating
Ethernet pseudo-wires, in which case its value can be used as the
initial MTU for the l2tpeth device.
However, when handling update requests, L2TP_ATTR_MTU only modifies
session->mtu. This value is never propagated to the l2tpeth device.
Dump requests also return the value of session->mtu, which is not
synchronised anymore with the device MTU.

The same problem occurs if the device MTU is properly updated using the
generic IFLA_MTU attribute. In this case, session->mtu is not updated,
and L2TP_ATTR_MTU will report an invalid value again when dumping the
session.

It does not seem worthwhile to complexify l2tp_eth.c to synchronise
session->mtu with the device MTU. Even the ip-l2tp manpage advises to
use 'ip link' to initialise the MTU of l2tpeth devices (iproute2 does
not handle L2TP_ATTR_MTU at all anyway). So let's just ignore it
entirely.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-08-03 10:03:57 -07:00
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acpi ACPI / processor: Finish making acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed() void 2018-06-20 10:50:40 +02:00
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keys docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
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scsi SCSI misc on 20180610 2018-06-10 13:01:12 -07:00
soc ARM: SoC: late updates 2018-06-11 18:19:45 -07:00
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trace rxrpc: Trace socket notification 2018-08-01 13:28:23 +01:00
uapi l2tp: ignore L2TP_ATTR_MTU 2018-08-03 10:03:57 -07:00
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