commit
8812304cf1110ae16b0778680f6022216cf4716a upstream.
In r8169 driver MTU is used to calculate receive buffer size.
Receive buffer size is used to configure hardware incoming packet filter.
For jumbo frames:
Receive buffer size = Max frame size = MTU + 14 (ethernet header) + 4
(vlan header) + 4 (ethernet checksum) = MTU + 22
Bug:
driver for all MTU up to 1536 use receive buffer size 1536
As you can see from formula, this mean all IP packets > 1536 - 22
(for vlan tagged, 1536 - 18 for not tagged) are dropped by hardware
filter.
Example:
host_good> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1536
host_r8169> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1536
host_good> ping host_r8169
Ok
host_good> ping -s 1500 host_r8169
Fail
host_good> ifconfig eth0 mtu 7000
host_r8169> ifconfig eth0 mtu 7000
host_good> ping -s 1500 host_r8169
Ok
Bonus: got rid of magic number 8
Signed-off-by: Raimonds Cicans <ray@apollo.lv>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>