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This attribute's handling is broken. It can only be used when creating Ethernet pseudo-wires, in which case its value can be used as the initial MTU for the l2tpeth device. However, when handling update requests, L2TP_ATTR_MTU only modifies session->mtu. This value is never propagated to the l2tpeth device. Dump requests also return the value of session->mtu, which is not synchronised anymore with the device MTU. The same problem occurs if the device MTU is properly updated using the generic IFLA_MTU attribute. In this case, session->mtu is not updated, and L2TP_ATTR_MTU will report an invalid value again when dumping the session. It does not seem worthwhile to complexify l2tp_eth.c to synchronise session->mtu with the device MTU. Even the ip-l2tp manpage advises to use 'ip link' to initialise the MTU of l2tpeth devices (iproute2 does not handle L2TP_ATTR_MTU at all anyway). So let's just ignore it entirely. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.