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Petr Machata committed f6cc9c054e7
ip_tunnel: Emit events for post-register MTU changes For tunnels created with IFLA_MTU, MTU of the netdevice is set by rtnl_create_link() (called from rtnl_newlink()) before the device is registered. However without IFLA_MTU that's not done. rtnl_newlink() proceeds by calling struct rtnl_link_ops.newlink, which via ip_tunnel_newlink() calls register_netdevice(), and that emits NETDEV_REGISTER. Thus any listeners that inspect the netdevice get the MTU of 0. After ip_tunnel_newlink() corrects the MTU after registering the netdevice, but since there's no event, the listeners don't get to know about the MTU until something else happens--such as a NETDEV_UP event. That's not ideal. So instead of setting the MTU directly, go through dev_set_mtu(), which takes care of distributing the necessary NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU and NETDEV_CHANGEMTU events. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>