[PATCH net] ipvs: fix PMTU for GUE/GRE tunnel ICMP errors

Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 14:59:40 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.lvs-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.netfilter-devel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When an ICMP Fragmentation Needed error is received for a tunneled IPVS
connection, ip_vs_in_icmp() recomputes the MTU that the original packet
can use by subtracting the tunnel overhead from the reported next-hop
MTU.

The current code always subtracts sizeof(struct iphdr), which is only
the IPIP overhead. For GUE and GRE tunnels, ipvs_udp_decap() and
ipvs_gre_decap() already compute the additional tunnel header length,
but that value is scoped to the decapsulation block and is lost before
the ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED handling. As a result, the ICMP error sent back to
the client advertises an MTU that is too large, so PMTUD can fail to
converge for GUE/GRE-tunneled real servers.

With a reported next-hop MTU of 1400, a GUE tunnel currently returns
1380 to the client. The correct value is 1368:

  1400 - sizeof(struct iphdr) - sizeof(struct udphdr) -
  sizeof(struct guehdr)

Hoist the tunnel header length into the main ip_vs_in_icmp() scope and
subtract sizeof(struct iphdr) + ulen in the Fragmentation Needed path.
The IPIP path keeps ulen as 0, so its existing 1400 - 20 = 1380 result
is unchanged.

Fixes: 508f744c0de3 ("ipvs: strip udp tunnel headers from icmp errors")
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Ao Wang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Qi Li <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Ke Xu <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:GLM-5.2
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index d40b404c1bf62..74c5bd8b5f48 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -1765,8 +1765,9 @@ ip_vs_in_icmp(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct sk_buff *skb, int *related,
 	struct ip_vs_proto_data *pd;
 	unsigned int offset, offset2, ihl, verdict;
 	bool tunnel, new_cp = false;
 	union nf_inet_addr *raddr;
 	char *outer_proto = "IPIP";
+	int ulen = 0;
 
 	*related = 1;
 
@@ -1831,7 +1832,6 @@ ip_vs_in_icmp(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct sk_buff *skb, int *related,
 		   /* Error for our tunnel must arrive at LOCAL_IN */
 		   (skb_rtable(skb)->rt_flags & RTCF_LOCAL)) {
 		__u8 iproto;
-		int ulen;
 
 		/* Non-first fragment has no UDP/GRE header */
 		if (unlikely(cih->frag_off & htons(IP_OFFSET)))
@@ -1936,8 +1936,8 @@ ip_vs_in_icmp(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct sk_buff *skb, int *related,
 				if (dest_dst)
 					mtu = dst_mtu(dest_dst->dst_cache);
 			}
-			if (mtu > 68 + sizeof(struct iphdr))
-				mtu -= sizeof(struct iphdr);
+			if (mtu > 68 + sizeof(struct iphdr) + ulen)
+				mtu -= sizeof(struct iphdr) + ulen;
 			info = htonl(mtu);
 		}
 		/* Strip outer IP, ICMP and IPIP/UDP/GRE, go to IP header of