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<title>linux.git/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ip_tunnel: Make none-tunnel-dst tunnel port work with lwtunnel</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T01:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wenxu</name>
<email>wenxu@ucloud.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-19T05:11:25+00:00</published>
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ip l add dev tun type gretap key 1000
ip a a dev tun 10.0.0.1/24

Packets with tun-id 1000 can be recived by tun dev. But packet can't
be sent through dev tun for non-tunnel-dst

With this patch: tunnel-dst can be get through lwtunnel like beflow:
ip r a 10.0.0.7 encap ip dst 172.168.0.11 dev tun

Signed-off-by: wenxu &lt;wenxu@ucloud.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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ip l add dev tun type gretap key 1000
ip a a dev tun 10.0.0.1/24

Packets with tun-id 1000 can be recived by tun dev. But packet can't
be sent through dev tun for non-tunnel-dst

With this patch: tunnel-dst can be get through lwtunnel like beflow:
ip r a 10.0.0.7 encap ip dst 172.168.0.11 dev tun

Signed-off-by: wenxu &lt;wenxu@ucloud.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip: validate header length on virtual device xmit</title>
<updated>2019-01-01T20:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-30T22:24:36+00:00</published>
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KMSAN detected read beyond end of buffer in vti and sit devices when
passing truncated packets with PF_PACKET. The issue affects additional
ip tunnel devices.

Extend commit 76c0ddd8c3a6 ("ip6_tunnel: be careful when accessing the
inner header") and commit ccfec9e5cb2d ("ip_tunnel: be careful when
accessing the inner header").

Move the check to a separate helper and call at the start of each
ndo_start_xmit function in net/ipv4 and net/ipv6.

Minor changes:
- convert dev_kfree_skb to kfree_skb on error path,
  as dev_kfree_skb calls consume_skb which is not for error paths.
- use pskb_network_may_pull even though that is pedantic here,
  as the same as pskb_may_pull for devices without llheaders.
- do not cache ipv6 hdrs if used only once
  (unsafe across pskb_may_pull, was more relevant to earlier patch)

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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KMSAN detected read beyond end of buffer in vti and sit devices when
passing truncated packets with PF_PACKET. The issue affects additional
ip tunnel devices.

Extend commit 76c0ddd8c3a6 ("ip6_tunnel: be careful when accessing the
inner header") and commit ccfec9e5cb2d ("ip_tunnel: be careful when
accessing the inner header").

Move the check to a separate helper and call at the start of each
ndo_start_xmit function in net/ipv4 and net/ipv6.

Minor changes:
- convert dev_kfree_skb to kfree_skb on error path,
  as dev_kfree_skb calls consume_skb which is not for error paths.
- use pskb_network_may_pull even though that is pedantic here,
  as the same as pskb_may_pull for devices without llheaders.
- do not cache ipv6 hdrs if used only once
  (unsafe across pskb_may_pull, was more relevant to earlier patch)

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip_tunnel: be careful when accessing the inner header</title>
<updated>2018-09-24T19:27:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-24T13:48:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ccfec9e5cb2d48df5a955b7bf47f7782157d3bc2'/>
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Cong noted that we need the same checks introduced by commit 76c0ddd8c3a6
("ip6_tunnel: be careful when accessing the inner header")
even for ipv4 tunnels.

Fixes: c54419321455 ("GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.")
Suggested-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Cong noted that we need the same checks introduced by commit 76c0ddd8c3a6
("ip6_tunnel: be careful when accessing the inner header")
even for ipv4 tunnels.

Fixes: c54419321455 ("GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.")
Suggested-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip_tunnel: Fix name string concatenate in __ip_tunnel_create()</title>
<updated>2018-06-07T20:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sultan Alsawaf</name>
<email>sultanxda@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-06T22:56:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=000ade8016400d93b4d7c89970d96b8c14773d45'/>
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<content type='text'>
By passing a limit of 2 bytes to strncat, strncat is limited to writing
fewer bytes than what it's supposed to append to the name here.

Since the bounds are checked on the line above this, just remove the string
bounds checks entirely since they're unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf &lt;sultanxda@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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By passing a limit of 2 bytes to strncat, strncat is limited to writing
fewer bytes than what it's supposed to append to the name here.

Since the bounds are checked on the line above this, just remove the string
bounds checks entirely since they're unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf &lt;sultanxda@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip_tunnel: restore binding to ifaces with a large mtu</title>
<updated>2018-06-01T17:56:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-31T08:59:32+00:00</published>
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After commit f6cc9c054e77, the following conf is broken (note that the
default loopback mtu is 65536, ie IP_MAX_MTU + 1):

$ ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local 10.125.0.1 remote 10.125.0.2 dev lo
add tunnel "gre0" failed: Invalid argument
$ ip l a type dummy
$ ip l s dummy1 up
$ ip l s dummy1 mtu 65535
$ ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local 10.125.0.1 remote 10.125.0.2 dev dummy1
add tunnel "gre0" failed: Invalid argument

dev_set_mtu() doesn't allow to set a mtu which is too large.
First, let's cap the mtu returned by ip_tunnel_bind_dev(). Second, remove
the magic value 0xFFF8 and use IP_MAX_MTU instead.
0xFFF8 seems to be there for ages, I don't know why this value was used.

With a recent kernel, it's also possible to set a mtu &gt; IP_MAX_MTU:
$ ip l s dummy1 mtu 66000
After that patch, it's also possible to bind an ip tunnel on that kind of
interface.

CC: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
CC: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netdev-vger-cvs.git/commit/?id=e5afd356a411a
Fixes: f6cc9c054e77 ("ip_tunnel: Emit events for post-register MTU changes")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After commit f6cc9c054e77, the following conf is broken (note that the
default loopback mtu is 65536, ie IP_MAX_MTU + 1):

$ ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local 10.125.0.1 remote 10.125.0.2 dev lo
add tunnel "gre0" failed: Invalid argument
$ ip l a type dummy
$ ip l s dummy1 up
$ ip l s dummy1 mtu 65535
$ ip tunnel add gre1 mode gre local 10.125.0.1 remote 10.125.0.2 dev dummy1
add tunnel "gre0" failed: Invalid argument

dev_set_mtu() doesn't allow to set a mtu which is too large.
First, let's cap the mtu returned by ip_tunnel_bind_dev(). Second, remove
the magic value 0xFFF8 and use IP_MAX_MTU instead.
0xFFF8 seems to be there for ages, I don't know why this value was used.

With a recent kernel, it's also possible to set a mtu &gt; IP_MAX_MTU:
$ ip l s dummy1 mtu 66000
After that patch, it's also possible to bind an ip tunnel on that kind of
interface.

CC: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
CC: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netdev-vger-cvs.git/commit/?id=e5afd356a411a
Fixes: f6cc9c054e77 ("ip_tunnel: Emit events for post-register MTU changes")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names</title>
<updated>2018-04-05T19:16:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T13:39:27+00:00</published>
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Use dev_valid_name() to make sure user does not provide illegal
device name.

syzbot caught the following bug :

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strlcpy include/linux/string.h:300 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __ip_tunnel_create+0xca/0x6b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:257
Write of size 20 at addr ffff8801ac79f810 by task syzkaller268107/4482

CPU: 0 PID: 4482 Comm: syzkaller268107 Not tainted 4.16.0+ #1
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1b9/0x29f lib/dump_stack.c:53
 print_address_description+0x6c/0x20b mm/kasan/report.c:256
 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:354 [inline]
 kasan_report.cold.7+0xac/0x2f5 mm/kasan/report.c:412
 check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:260 [inline]
 check_memory_region+0x13e/0x1b0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:267
 memcpy+0x37/0x50 mm/kasan/kasan.c:303
 strlcpy include/linux/string.h:300 [inline]
 __ip_tunnel_create+0xca/0x6b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:257
 ip_tunnel_create net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:352 [inline]
 ip_tunnel_ioctl+0x818/0xd40 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:861
 ipip_tunnel_ioctl+0x1c5/0x420 net/ipv4/ipip.c:350
 dev_ifsioc+0x43e/0xb90 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:334
 dev_ioctl+0x69a/0xcc0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:525
 sock_ioctl+0x47e/0x680 net/socket.c:1015
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline]
 file_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:500 [inline]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x1cf/0x1650 fs/ioctl.c:684
 ksys_ioctl+0xa9/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:701
 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:708 [inline]
 SyS_ioctl+0x24/0x30 fs/ioctl.c:706
 do_syscall_64+0x29e/0x9d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7

Fixes: c54419321455 ("GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Use dev_valid_name() to make sure user does not provide illegal
device name.

syzbot caught the following bug :

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strlcpy include/linux/string.h:300 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __ip_tunnel_create+0xca/0x6b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:257
Write of size 20 at addr ffff8801ac79f810 by task syzkaller268107/4482

CPU: 0 PID: 4482 Comm: syzkaller268107 Not tainted 4.16.0+ #1
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1b9/0x29f lib/dump_stack.c:53
 print_address_description+0x6c/0x20b mm/kasan/report.c:256
 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:354 [inline]
 kasan_report.cold.7+0xac/0x2f5 mm/kasan/report.c:412
 check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:260 [inline]
 check_memory_region+0x13e/0x1b0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:267
 memcpy+0x37/0x50 mm/kasan/kasan.c:303
 strlcpy include/linux/string.h:300 [inline]
 __ip_tunnel_create+0xca/0x6b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:257
 ip_tunnel_create net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:352 [inline]
 ip_tunnel_ioctl+0x818/0xd40 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:861
 ipip_tunnel_ioctl+0x1c5/0x420 net/ipv4/ipip.c:350
 dev_ifsioc+0x43e/0xb90 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:334
 dev_ioctl+0x69a/0xcc0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:525
 sock_ioctl+0x47e/0x680 net/socket.c:1015
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline]
 file_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:500 [inline]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x1cf/0x1650 fs/ioctl.c:684
 ksys_ioctl+0xa9/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:701
 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:708 [inline]
 SyS_ioctl+0x24/0x30 fs/ioctl.c:706
 do_syscall_64+0x29e/0x9d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7

Fixes: c54419321455 ("GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2018-04-01T23:49:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-01T23:49:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c0b458a9463bd6be165374a8e9e3235800ee132e'/>
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<content type='text'>
Minor conflicts in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c,
we had some overlapping changes:

1) In 'net' MLX5E_PARAMS_LOG_{SQ,RQ}_SIZE --&gt;
   MLX5E_REP_PARAMS_LOG_{SQ,RQ}_SIZE

2) In 'net-next' params-&gt;log_rq_size is renamed to be
   params-&gt;log_rq_mtu_frames.

3) In 'net-next' params-&gt;hard_mtu is added.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Minor conflicts in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c,
we had some overlapping changes:

1) In 'net' MLX5E_PARAMS_LOG_{SQ,RQ}_SIZE --&gt;
   MLX5E_REP_PARAMS_LOG_{SQ,RQ}_SIZE

2) In 'net-next' params-&gt;log_rq_size is renamed to be
   params-&gt;log_rq_mtu_frames.

3) In 'net-next' params-&gt;hard_mtu is added.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip_tunnel: Resolve ipsec merge conflict properly.</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T15:42:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-29T15:42:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5568cdc368c349eee7b5fc48bc956234a0828d71'/>
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<content type='text'>
We want to use dev_set_mtu() regardless of how we calculate
the mtu value.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We want to use dev_set_mtu() regardless of how we calculate
the mtu value.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T14:12:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-29T14:12:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=020295d95e13478ecbbbe2f44398ed4b4edb28df'/>
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Steffen Klassert says:

====================
pull request (net): ipsec 2018-03-29

1) Fix a rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock imbalance
   in the error path of xfrm_local_error().
   From Taehee Yoo.

2) Some VTI MTU fixes. From Stefano Brivio.

3) Fix a too early overwritten skb control buffer
   on xfrm transport mode.

Please note that this pull request has a merge conflict
in net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c.

The conflict is between

commit f6cc9c054e77 ("ip_tunnel: Emit events for post-register MTU changes")

from the net tree and

commit 24fc79798b8d ("ip_tunnel: Clamp MTU to bounds on new link")

from the ipsec tree.

It can be solved as it is currently done in linux-next.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Steffen Klassert says:

====================
pull request (net): ipsec 2018-03-29

1) Fix a rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock imbalance
   in the error path of xfrm_local_error().
   From Taehee Yoo.

2) Some VTI MTU fixes. From Stefano Brivio.

3) Fix a too early overwritten skb control buffer
   on xfrm transport mode.

Please note that this pull request has a merge conflict
in net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c.

The conflict is between

commit f6cc9c054e77 ("ip_tunnel: Emit events for post-register MTU changes")

from the net tree and

commit 24fc79798b8d ("ip_tunnel: Clamp MTU to bounds on new link")

from the ipsec tree.

It can be solved as it is currently done in linux-next.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip_tunnel: Emit events for post-register MTU changes</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T16:54:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T17:53:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f6cc9c054e77b9a28d4594bcc201697edb21dfd2'/>
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For tunnels created with IFLA_MTU, MTU of the netdevice is set by
rtnl_create_link() (called from rtnl_newlink()) before the device is
registered. However without IFLA_MTU that's not done.

rtnl_newlink() proceeds by calling struct rtnl_link_ops.newlink, which
via ip_tunnel_newlink() calls register_netdevice(), and that emits
NETDEV_REGISTER. Thus any listeners that inspect the netdevice get the
MTU of 0.

After ip_tunnel_newlink() corrects the MTU after registering the
netdevice, but since there's no event, the listeners don't get to know
about the MTU until something else happens--such as a NETDEV_UP event.
That's not ideal.

So instead of setting the MTU directly, go through dev_set_mtu(), which
takes care of distributing the necessary NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU and
NETDEV_CHANGEMTU events.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For tunnels created with IFLA_MTU, MTU of the netdevice is set by
rtnl_create_link() (called from rtnl_newlink()) before the device is
registered. However without IFLA_MTU that's not done.

rtnl_newlink() proceeds by calling struct rtnl_link_ops.newlink, which
via ip_tunnel_newlink() calls register_netdevice(), and that emits
NETDEV_REGISTER. Thus any listeners that inspect the netdevice get the
MTU of 0.

After ip_tunnel_newlink() corrects the MTU after registering the
netdevice, but since there's no event, the listeners don't get to know
about the MTU until something else happens--such as a NETDEV_UP event.
That's not ideal.

So instead of setting the MTU directly, go through dev_set_mtu(), which
takes care of distributing the necessary NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU and
NETDEV_CHANGEMTU events.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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