Re: [PATCH] ipv4: icmp: Fix pMTU handling for rare case

[Edward Allcutt]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, David Miller wrote:
> I still think the OpenBSD thing can't be intentional, and it's some
> bug they probably want to fix and it should therefore be investigated.

Shout at me if this is getting too off-topic..

Looking at the 5.5 kernel, the plumbing to set up icp->icmp_nextmtu is all 
there in icmp_do_error() when it is passed a non-zero destmtu. 
ip_forward() seems to be the relevant caller, however this initializes 
destmtu to 0 and only sets it in the ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG case if both
#ifdef IPSEC and some conditional on the current route which I don't 
understand.

Either way it doesn't look intentional since the code to set it is 
present.

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Edward Allcutt
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