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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent•org.uk>
To: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson•com>, Ying Xue <ying.xue0@gmail•com>
Cc: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Qian Zhang <zhangqian-c@360•cn>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tipc: Guard against tiny MTU in tipc_msg_build()
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:40:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1476981609.2709.56.camel@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A2BAEFC30C8FD34388F02C9B3121859D22587ADA@eusaamb103.ericsson.se>

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On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 14:51 +0000, Jon Maloy wrote:
[...]
> > At this point we're about to copy INT_H_SIZE + mhsz bytes into the
> > first fragment.  If that's already limited to be less than or equal to
> > MAX_H_SIZE, comparing with MAX_H_SIZE would be fine.  But if MAX_H_SIZE
> > is the maximum value of mhsz, that won't be good enough.
> 
> 
> MAX_H_SIZE is 60 bytes, but in practice you will never see an mhsz larger than the biggest header we are actually using, which is MCAST_H_SIZE (==44 bytes).
> INT_H_SIZE is 40 bytes, so you are in reality testing for whether we have an mtu < 84 bytes.
> You won't find any interfaces or protocols that come even close to this limitation, so to me this test is redundant.

But I can easily create such an interface:

$ unshare -n -U -r
# ip l set lo mtu 1

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19  2:16 [PATCH net] tipc: Guard against tiny MTU in tipc_msg_build() Ben Hutchings
2016-10-20  9:30 ` Ying Xue
2016-10-20 12:46   ` Ben Hutchings
2016-10-20 14:51     ` Jon Maloy
2016-10-20 16:40       ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2016-10-21 14:57         ` Jon Maloy
2016-10-21 15:00           ` Ben Hutchings
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2016-11-01  6:35 张谦
2016-11-01 11:36 ` Jon Maloy
2016-11-04  7:23 张谦
2016-11-04 15:57 ` Jon Maloy
2016-11-04 17:45   ` 张谦

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