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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:48:47 +0000 (17:48 -0800)
commitfa3f55df7d5ae2d978024dda5b236c645a7c7819
treed1a94eba693b3b6ecbf2a86baf8faa70bf626415
parent06b5ff9f351205b2900c9629addf74a4c875b12c
ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280

[ Upstream commit 9d289715eb5c252ae15bd547cb252ca547a3c4f2 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/route.c