Re: [PATCH net-next v6] ipv6: add IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to expose mtu value

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:41:53 -0700 David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/27/21 8:04 AM, Rocco Yue wrote:
> > The kernel provides a "/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>/mtu"
> > file, which can temporarily record the mtu value of the last
> > received RA message when the RA mtu value is lower than the
> > interface mtu, but this proc has following limitations:
> > 
> > (1) when the interface mtu (/sys/class/net/<iface>/mtu) is
> > updeated, mtu6 (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>/mtu) will
> > be updated to the value of interface mtu;
> > (2) mtu6 (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<iface>/mtu) only affect
> > ipv6 connection, and not affect ipv4.
> > 
> > Therefore, when the mtu option is carried in the RA message,
> > there will be a problem that the user sometimes cannot obtain
> > RA mtu value correctly by reading mtu6.
> > 
> > After this patch set, if a RA message carries the mtu option,
> > you can send a netlink msg which nlmsg_type is RTM_GETLINK,
> > and then by parsing the attribute of IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to
> > get the mtu value carried in the RA message received on the
> > inet6 device. In addition, you can also get a link notification
> > when ra_mtu is updated so it doesn't have to poll.
> > 
> > In this way, if the MTU values that the device receives from
> > the network in the PCO IPv4 and the RA IPv6 procedures are
> > different, the user can obtain the correct ipv6 ra_mtu value
> > and compare the value of ra_mtu and ipv4 mtu, then the device
> > can use the lower MTU value for both IPv4 and IPv6.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you!