[PATCH 3.2 187/221] ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280

[Ben Hutchings]

3.2.69-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@xxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 9d289715eb5c252ae15bd547cb252ca547a3c4f2 ]

Reduce the attack vector and stop generating IPv6 Fragment Header for
paths with an MTU smaller than the minimum required IPv6 MTU
size (1280 byte) - called atomic fragments.

See IETF I-D "Deprecating the Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments" [1]
for more information and how this "feature" can be misused.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation-00

Signed-off-by: Fernando Gont <fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv6/route.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1018,12 +1018,9 @@ static void ip6_rt_update_pmtu(struct ds
 
 	if (mtu < dst_mtu(dst) && rt6->rt6i_dst.plen == 128) {
 		rt6->rt6i_flags |= RTF_MODIFIED;
-		if (mtu < IPV6_MIN_MTU) {
-			u32 features = dst_metric(dst, RTAX_FEATURES);
+		if (mtu < IPV6_MIN_MTU)
 			mtu = IPV6_MIN_MTU;
-			features |= RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG;
-			dst_metric_set(dst, RTAX_FEATURES, features);
-		}
+
 		dst_metric_set(dst, RTAX_MTU, mtu);
 	}
 }

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