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    ipv6: Handle PMTU in ICMP error handlers. · 81aded24
    David S. Miller authored
    
    
    One tricky issue on the ipv6 side vs. ipv4 is that the ICMP callouts
    to handle the error pass the 32-bit info cookie in network byte order
    whereas ipv4 passes it around in host byte order.
    
    Like the ipv4 side, we have two helper functions.  One for when we
    have a socket context and one for when we do not.
    
    ip6ip6 tunnels are not handled here, because they handle PMTU events
    by essentially relaying another ICMP packet-too-big message back to
    the original sender.
    
    This patch allows us to get rid of rt6_do_pmtu_disc().  It handles all
    kinds of situations that simply cannot happen when we do the PMTU
    update directly using a fully resolved route.
    
    In fact, the "plen == 128" check in ip6_rt_update_pmtu() can very
    likely be removed or changed into a BUG_ON() check.  We should never
    have a prefixed ipv6 route when we get there.
    
    Another piece of strange history here is that TCP and DCCP, unlike in
    ipv4, never invoke the update_pmtu() method from their ICMP error
    handlers.  This is incredibly astonishing since this is the context
    where we have the most accurate context in which to make a PMTU
    update, namely we have a fully connected socket and associated cached
    socket route.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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