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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 14:25:56 +0000 (16:25 +0200)
commitc18f90bcf44cee1f6aa54d162dcdc8aa0b3d8375
treefb6948c6d63ffe917be390ebc736b5d8735151ea
parentc03a1475740f6203ef245ff37901d52fc1edd244
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