When netfilter defrag hooks are loaded (due to the presence of conntrack
rules, for example), fragmented packets entering the bridge will be
defragged by the bridge's pre-routing hook (br_nf_pre_routing() ->
ipv4_conntrack_defrag()).
Later on, in the bridge's post-routing hook, the defragged packet will
be fragmented again. If the size of the largest fragment is larger than
what the kernel has determined as the destination MTU (using
ip_skb_dst_mtu()), the defragged packet will be dropped.
Before commit ac6627a28d ("net: ipv4: Consolidate ipv4_mtu and
ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward"), ip_skb_dst_mtu() would return dst_mtu() as
the destination MTU. Assuming the dst entry attached to the packet is
the bridge's fake rtable one, this would simply be the bridge's MTU (see
fake_mtu()).
However, after above mentioned commit, ip_skb_dst_mtu() ends up
returning the route's MTU stored in the dst entry's metrics. Ideally, in
case the dst entry is the bridge's fake rtable one, this should be the
bridge's MTU as the bridge takes care of updating this metric when its
MTU changes (see br_change_mtu()).
Unfortunately, the last operation is a no-op given the metrics attached
to the fake rtable entry are marked as read-only. Therefore,
ip_skb_dst_mtu() ends up returning 1500 (the initial MTU value) and
defragged packets are dropped during fragmentation when dealing with
large fragments and high MTU (e.g., 9k).
Fix by moving the fake rtable entry's metrics to be per-bridge (in a
similar fashion to the fake rtable entry itself) and marking them as
writable, thereby allowing MTU changes to be reflected.
Fixes: 62fa8a846d ("net: Implement read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics.")
Fixes: 33eb9873a2 ("bridge: initialize fake_rtable metrics")
Reported-by: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/PH0PR10MB4504888284FF4CBA648197D0ACB82@PH0PR10MB4504.namprd10.prod.outlook.com/
Tested-by: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515084848.727706-1-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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