[PATCH net] ibmveth: Fix max MTU limit

Thomas Falcon tlfalcon at linux.ibm.com
Fri Jun 19 06:51:48 AEST 2020


On 6/18/20 10:57 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:43:46 -0500 Thomas Falcon wrote:
>> The max MTU limit defined for ibmveth is not accounting for
>> virtual ethernet buffer overhead, which is twenty-two additional
>> bytes set aside for the ethernet header and eight additional bytes
>> of an opaque handle reserved for use by the hypervisor. Update the
>> max MTU to reflect this overhead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.ibm.com>
> How about
>
> Fixes: d894be57ca92 ("ethernet: use net core MTU range checking in more drivers")
> Fixes: 110447f8269a ("ethernet: fix min/max MTU typos")
>
> ?

Thanks, do you need me to send a v2 with those tags?

Tom



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