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authorStefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>2018-11-08 12:19:16 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-11-08 17:13:08 -0800
commitb4d3069783bccf0c965468da7db141d359d796fc (patch)
treecf2cc238c834ffe3417a84eb6592eef3e26b3a5b /include/net/vxlan.h
parentc3a43b9fec8a1d0cd6c5b404d2c378ac873facad (diff)
downloadlinux-b4d3069783bccf0c965468da7db141d359d796fc.tar.bz2
vxlan: Allow configuration of DF behaviour
Allow users to set the IPv4 DF bit in outgoing packets, or to inherit its value from the IPv4 inner header. If the encapsulated protocol is IPv6 and DF is configured to be inherited, always set it. For IPv4, inheriting DF from the inner header was probably intended from the very beginning judging by the comment to vxlan_xmit(), but it wasn't actually implemented -- also because it would have done more harm than good, without handling for ICMP Fragmentation Needed messages. According to RFC 7348, "Path MTU discovery MAY be used". An expired RFC draft, draft-saum-nvo3-pmtud-over-vxlan-05, whose purpose was to describe PMTUD implementation, says that "is a MUST that Vxlan gateways [...] SHOULD set the DF-bit [...]", whatever that means. Given this background, the only sane option is probably to let the user decide, and keep the current behaviour as default. This only applies to non-lwt tunnels: if an external control plane is used, tunnel key will still control the DF flag. v2: - DF behaviour configuration only applies for non-lwt tunnels, move DF setting to if (!info) block in vxlan_xmit_one() (Stephen Hemminger) Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/net/vxlan.h b/include/net/vxlan.h
index 03431c148e16..ec999c49df1f 100644
--- a/include/net/vxlan.h
+++ b/include/net/vxlan.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ struct vxlan_config {
unsigned long age_interval;
unsigned int addrmax;
bool no_share;
+ enum ifla_vxlan_df df;
};
struct vxlan_dev_node {