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net: IP6 defrag: use rbtrees for IPv6 defrag
authorPeter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:41:07 +0000 (08:41 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 2 May 2019 07:32:06 +0000 (09:32 +0200)
commiteccf76e1fa34ae926ce2b73965c3017399a07920
treea1cec284e64e260c754b88703e487d5f102bd85d
parent33336cdde18bc81095fdf01481cb35767c2af2d1
net: IP6 defrag: use rbtrees for IPv6 defrag

[ Upstream commit d4289fcc9b16b89619ee1c54f829e05e56de8b9a ]

Currently, IPv6 defragmentation code drops non-last fragments that
are smaller than 1280 bytes: see
commit 0ed4229b08c1 ("ipv6: defrag: drop non-last frags smaller than min mtu")

This behavior is not specified in IPv6 RFCs and appears to break
compatibility with some IPv6 implemenations, as reported here:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg543846.html

This patch re-uses common IP defragmentation queueing and reassembly
code in IPv6, removing the 1280 byte restriction.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
Reported-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/net/ipv6_frag.h
net/ipv6/reassembly.c