[PATCH net] net: remove MTU limits on a few ether_setup callers

From: Jarod Wilson
Date: Thu Oct 20 2016 - 23:25:40 EST


These few drivers call ether_setup(), but have no ndo_change_mtu, and thus
were overlooked for changes to MTU range checking behavior. They
previously had no range checks, so for feature-parity, set their min_mtu
to 0 and max_mtu to ETH_MAX_MTU (65535), instead of the 68 and 1500
inherited from the ether_setup() changes. Fine-tuning can come after we get
back to full feature-parity here.

CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: R Parameswaran <parameswaran.r7@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/atm/br2684.c | 4 +++-
net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c | 2 ++
net/dsa/slave.c | 2 ++
net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c | 3 ++-
net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c | 2 ++
5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/atm/br2684.c b/net/atm/br2684.c
index c7d82f4..fca84e1 100644
--- a/net/atm/br2684.c
+++ b/net/atm/br2684.c
@@ -649,7 +649,9 @@ static void br2684_setup_routed(struct net_device *netdev)
netdev->hard_header_len = sizeof(llc_oui_ipv4); /* worst case */
netdev->netdev_ops = &br2684_netdev_ops_routed;
netdev->addr_len = 0;
- netdev->mtu = 1500;
+ netdev->mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
+ netdev->min_mtu = 0;
+ netdev->max_mtu = ETH_MAX_MTU;
netdev->type = ARPHRD_PPP;
netdev->flags = IFF_POINTOPOINT | IFF_NOARP | IFF_MULTICAST;
netdev->tx_queue_len = 100;
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c b/net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c
index 0f25ddc..2b875ed 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ void bnep_net_setup(struct net_device *dev)
dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN;

ether_setup(dev);
+ dev->min_mtu = 0;
+ dev->max_mtu = ETH_MAX_MTU;
dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;
dev->netdev_ops = &bnep_netdev_ops;

diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c
index 68714a5..d0c7bce 100644
--- a/net/dsa/slave.c
+++ b/net/dsa/slave.c
@@ -1247,6 +1247,8 @@ int dsa_slave_create(struct dsa_switch *ds, struct device *parent,
slave_dev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE;
slave_dev->netdev_ops = &dsa_slave_netdev_ops;
slave_dev->switchdev_ops = &dsa_slave_switchdev_ops;
+ slave_dev->min_mtu = 0;
+ slave_dev->max_mtu = ETH_MAX_MTU;
SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(slave_dev, &dsa_type);

netdev_for_each_tx_queue(slave_dev, dsa_slave_set_lockdep_class_one,
diff --git a/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c b/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c
index 8192eae..74d09f9 100644
--- a/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c
+++ b/net/irda/irlan/irlan_eth.c
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ static void irlan_eth_setup(struct net_device *dev)

dev->netdev_ops = &irlan_eth_netdev_ops;
dev->destructor = free_netdev;
-
+ dev->min_mtu = 0;
+ dev->max_mtu = ETH_MAX_MTU;

/*
* Lets do all queueing in IrTTP instead of this device driver.
diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
index 965f7e3..e2c6ae0 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
@@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ static int l2tp_eth_create(struct net *net, u32 tunnel_id, u32 session_id, u32 p
session->mtu = dev->mtu - session->hdr_len;
dev->mtu = session->mtu;
dev->needed_headroom += session->hdr_len;
+ dev->min_mtu = 0;
+ dev->max_mtu = ETH_MAX_MTU;

priv = netdev_priv(dev);
priv->dev = dev;
--
2.10.0