1 From f46010b917db41a3475f25295dde1bccc24d8ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
3 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:04:20 +0800
4 Subject: net: vrf: Fix ping failed when vrf mtu is set to 0
6 [ Upstream commit 5055376a3b44c4021de8830c9157f086a97731df ]
8 When the mtu of a vrf device is set to 0, it would cause ping
9 failed. So I think we should limit vrf mtu in a reasonable range
10 to solve this problem. I set dev->min_mtu to IPV6_MIN_MTU, so it
11 will works for both ipv4 and ipv6. And if dev->max_mtu still be 0
12 can be confusing, so I set dev->max_mtu to ETH_MAX_MTU.
14 Here is the reproduce step:
16 1.Config vrf interface and set mtu to 0:
17 3: enp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel
18 master vrf1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
19 link/ether 52:54:00:9e:dd:c1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
22 3: enp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel
23 master vrf1 state UP group default qlen 1000
24 link/ether 52:54:00:9e:dd:c1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
25 inet 10.0.0.1/16 scope global enp4s0
26 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
27 connect: Network is unreachable
29 3.Set mtu to default value, ping works:
30 PING 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
31 64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.88 ms
33 Fixes: ad49bc6361ca2 ("net: vrf: remove MTU limits for vrf device")
34 Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
35 Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
36 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
37 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
39 drivers/net/vrf.c | 8 ++++++--
40 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
42 diff --git a/drivers/net/vrf.c b/drivers/net/vrf.c
43 index 6d1a1abbed27..cd15c32b2e43 100644
44 --- a/drivers/net/vrf.c
45 +++ b/drivers/net/vrf.c
46 @@ -1275,8 +1275,12 @@ static void vrf_setup(struct net_device *dev)
47 dev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE;
48 dev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_RX_HANDLER;
52 + /* VRF devices do not care about MTU, but if the MTU is set
53 + * too low then the ipv4 and ipv6 protocols are disabled
54 + * which breaks networking.
56 + dev->min_mtu = IPV6_MIN_MTU;
57 + dev->max_mtu = ETH_MAX_MTU;
60 static int vrf_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[],