From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
paul.durrant@citrix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
vkuznets@redhat.com, otubo@redhat.com, cavery@redhat.com,
cheshi@redhat.com, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront, xen-netback: Use correct minimum MTU values
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:19:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3da3d5ae-c2cb-380e-368d-a90432608cf1@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171016150522.nebui653rkjove7r@citrix.com>
On 10/16/2017 11:05 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 03:20:32PM +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote:
>> RFC791 specifies the minimum MTU to be 68, while xen-net{front|back}
>> drivers use a minimum value of 0.
>>
>> When set MTU to 0~67 with xen_net{front|back} driver, the network
>> will become unreachable immediately, the guest can no longer be pinged.
>>
>> xen_net{front|back} should not allow the user to set this value which causes
>> network problems.
>>
>> Reported-by: Chen Shi <cheshi@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
>
> CC netfront maintainers
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
I can take it via Xen tree unless there are objections.
-boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-16 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-16 13:20 Mohammed Gamal
2017-10-16 14:43 ` Eduardo Otubo
2017-10-16 15:05 ` Wei Liu
2017-10-16 20:19 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-10-16 20:22 ` David Miller
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