From: Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 06:55:06 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: network/route: update MTU of IPv6 route even if the kernel returns -EEXIST
X-Git-Tag: v256-rc1~1088
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c62c4fe0b54fb419b875cb2bae82a261518a745;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

network/route: update MTU of IPv6 route even if the kernel returns -EEXIST
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diff --git a/src/network/networkd-route.c b/src/network/networkd-route.c
index a142719fb74..05280a582f6 100644
--- a/src/network/networkd-route.c
+++ b/src/network/networkd-route.c
@@ -874,6 +874,19 @@ int route_configure_handler_internal(sd_netlink *rtnl, sd_netlink_message *m, Li
                          * notification, so we need to update the timer here. */
                         existing->lifetime_usec = route->lifetime_usec;
                         (void) route_setup_timer(existing, NULL);
+
+                        /* This may be a bug in the kernel, but the MTU of an IPv6 route can be updated only
+                         * when the route has an expiration timer managed by the kernel (not by us).
+                         * See fib6_add_rt2node() in net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c of the kernel. */
+                        if (existing->family == AF_INET6 &&
+                            existing->expiration_managed_by_kernel) {
+                                r = route_metric_set(&existing->metric, RTAX_MTU, route_metric_get(&route->metric, RTAX_MTU));
+                                if (r < 0) {
+                                        log_oom();
+                                        link_enter_failed(link);
+                                        return 0;
+                                }
+                        }
                 }
 
         } else if (r < 0) {