batman-adv: fix soft-interface MTU computation

The current MTU computation always returns a value
smaller than 1500bytes even if the real interfaces
have an MTU large enough to compensate the batman-adv
overhead.

Fix the computation by properly returning the highest
admitted value.

Introduced by a19d3d85e1b854e4a483a55d740a42458085560d
("batman-adv: limit local translation table max size")

Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index 3d417d3641c6d83a4ecb4f87bdf48d4f26d48242..b851cc58085330acbab02848fedf3cb01751a060 100644 (file)
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ int batadv_hardif_min_mtu(struct net_device *soft_iface)
 {
        struct batadv_priv *bat_priv = netdev_priv(soft_iface);
        const struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface;
-       int min_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
+       int min_mtu = INT_MAX;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
        list_for_each_entry_rcu(hard_iface, &batadv_hardif_list, list) {
@@ -256,8 +256,6 @@ int batadv_hardif_min_mtu(struct net_device *soft_iface)
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
-       atomic_set(&bat_priv->packet_size_max, min_mtu);
-
        if (atomic_read(&bat_priv->fragmentation) == 0)
                goto out;
 
@@ -268,13 +266,21 @@ int batadv_hardif_min_mtu(struct net_device *soft_iface)
        min_mtu = min_t(int, min_mtu, BATADV_FRAG_MAX_FRAG_SIZE);
        min_mtu -= sizeof(struct batadv_frag_packet);
        min_mtu *= BATADV_FRAG_MAX_FRAGMENTS;
-       atomic_set(&bat_priv->packet_size_max, min_mtu);
-
-       /* with fragmentation enabled we can fragment external packets easily */
-       min_mtu = min_t(int, min_mtu, ETH_DATA_LEN);
 
 out:
-       return min_mtu - batadv_max_header_len();
+       /* report to the other components the maximum amount of bytes that
+        * batman-adv can send over the wire (without considering the payload
+        * overhead). For example, this value is used by TT to compute the
+        * maximum local table table size
+        */
+       atomic_set(&bat_priv->packet_size_max, min_mtu);
+
+       /* the real soft-interface MTU is computed by removing the payload
+        * overhead from the maximum amount of bytes that was just computed.
+        *
+        * However batman-adv does not support MTUs bigger than ETH_DATA_LEN
+        */
+       return min_t(int, min_mtu - batadv_max_header_len(), ETH_DATA_LEN);
 }
 
 /* adjusts the MTU if a new interface with a smaller MTU appeared. */