Re: [PATCH net] team: use ETH_MAX_MTU as max mtu

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Mar 09 2017 - 01:20:11 EST


From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:48:58 -0500

> This restores the ability to set a team device's mtu to anything higher
> than 1500. Similar to the reported issue with bonding, the team driver
> calls ether_setup(), which sets an initial max_mtu of 1500, while the
> underlying hardware can handle something much larger. Just set it to
> ETH_MAX_MTU to support all possible values, and the limitations of the
> underlying devices will prevent setting anything too large.
>
> Fixes: 91572088e3fd ("net: use core MTU range checking in core net infra")
> CC: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.