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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)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:29:41 +0000 (17:29 -0700)
commit9e30ecf23b1b8f091f7d08b27968dea83aae7908
tree9f9056a642aaadb9e3aa9e3c65d399658e01db5f
parent2f4053db0b13eb59693f910855c053f523333e89
net: ipv4: fix incorrect MTU in broadcast routes

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>
net/ipv4/route.c