Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ip6_gre: Fix MTU setting for ip6gretap

[David Miller]

From: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 18:17:34 +0800

> When creat an ip6gretap interface with an unreachable route,
> the MTU is about 14 bytes larger than what was needed.
 ...
> Because rt is not NULL here, so dev->mtu will subtract the ethernet
> header length later. But when rt is NULL, it just simply return, so
> dev->mtu doesn't update correctly in this situation.
> 
> This patch first verify the dev->type is ARPHRD_ETHER for ip6gretap
> interface, and then decrease the mtu as early as possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.