Re: [PATCH net-next] firewire: net: really fix maximum possible MTU

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Oct 29 2016 - 23:02:46 EST


From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 22:16:58 +0200

> The maximum unicast datagram size /without/ link fragmentation is
> 4096 - 4 = 4092 (max IEEE 1394 async payload size at >= S800 bus speed,
> minus unfragmented encapssulation header). Max broadcast datagram size
> without fragmentation is 8 bytes less than that (due to GASP header).
>
> The maximum datagram size /with/ link fragmentation is 0xfff = 4095
> for unicast and broadcast. This is because the RFC 2734 fragment
> encapsulation header field for datagram size is only 12 bits wide.
>
> Fixes: 5d48f00d836a('firewire: net: fix maximum possible MTU')
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.