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net: ipv4: fix incorrect MTU in broadcast routes
authorOscar Maes <oscmaes92@gmail.com>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:27:13 +0000 (16:27 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:28:20 +0000 (16:28 +0200)
commitc133a9327d2dc2bdba041a8760427718fdb84397
treeeb2fdbff6d813d494a6cd03bb87cc6fc353ddbcd
parent606908835bc42830dac611245ad275972bd39179
net: ipv4: fix incorrect MTU in broadcast routes

[ Upstream commit 9e30ecf23b1b8f091f7d08b27968dea83aae7908 ]

Currently, __mkroute_output overrules the MTU value configured for
broadcast routes.

This buggy behaviour can be reproduced with:

ip link set dev eth1 mtu 9000
ip route del broadcast 192.168.0.255 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2
ip route add broadcast 192.168.0.255 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 mtu 1500

The maximum packet size should be 1500, but it is actually 8000:

ping -b 192.168.0.255 -s 8000

Fix __mkroute_output to allow MTU values to be configured for
for broadcast routes (to support a mixed-MTU local-area-network).

Signed-off-by: Oscar Maes <oscmaes92@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250710142714.12986-1-oscmaes92@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/ipv4/route.c