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usbnet: limit max_mtu based on device's hard_mtu
authorLaurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:55:18 +0000 (08:55 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:58:54 +0000 (18:58 -0800)
commitc7159e960f1472a5493ac99aff0086ab1d683594
treee485490b28fd5408c7e58498d0a7054a18ef034d
parent9a063f96d87efc3a6cc667f8de096a3d38d74bb5
usbnet: limit max_mtu based on device's hard_mtu

The usbnet driver initializes net->max_mtu to ETH_MAX_MTU before calling
the device's bind() callback. When the bind() callback sets
dev->hard_mtu based the device's actual capability (from CDC Ethernet's
wMaxSegmentSize descriptor), max_mtu is never updated to reflect this
hardware limitation).

This allows userspace (DHCP or IPv6 RA) to configure MTU larger than the
device can handle, leading to silent packet drops when the backend sends
packet exceeding the device's buffer size.

Fix this by limiting net->max_mtu to the device's hard_mtu after the
bind callback returns.

See https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3268 and
    https://bugs.passt.top/attachment.cgi?bugid=189

Fixes: f77f0aee4da4 ("net: use core MTU range checking in USB NIC drivers")
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=189
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119075518.2774373-1-lvivier@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c