ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280
authorHagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:34:25 +0000 (22:34 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:52:07 +0000 (14:52 -0500)
commit9d289715eb5c252ae15bd547cb252ca547a3c4f2
treeb1a1f354702809ff53e038ff44f9b88d7b0b0a08
parent2061dcd6bff8b774b4fac8b0739b6be3f87bc9f2
ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280

Reduce the attack vector and stop generating IPv6 Fragment Header for
paths with an MTU smaller than the minimum required IPv6 MTU
size (1280 byte) - called atomic fragments.

See IETF I-D "Deprecating the Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments" [1]
for more information and how this "feature" can be misused.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation-00

Signed-off-by: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/route.c