3 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go
index 680eafd16..e8816c3f4 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go
@@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ const (
 	// units, the header cannot exceed 15*4 = 60 bytes.
 	IPv4MaximumHeaderSize = 60
 
+	// IPv4MaximumPayloadSize is the maximum size of a valid IPv4 payload.
+	//
+	// Linux limits this to 65,515 octets (the max IP datagram size - the IPv4
+	// header size). But RFC 791 section 3.2 discusses the design of the IPv4
+	// fragment "allows 2**13 = 8192 fragments of 8 octets each for a total of
+	// 65,536 octets. Note that this is consistent with the the datagram total
+	// length field (of course, the header is counted in the total length and not
+	// in the fragments)."
+	IPv4MaximumPayloadSize = 65536
+
 	// MinIPFragmentPayloadSize is the minimum number of payload bytes that
 	// the first fragment must carry when an IPv4 packet is fragmented.
 	MinIPFragmentPayloadSize = 8
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
index ea3823898..0761a1807 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv6.go
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ const (
 	// IPv6AddressSize is the size, in bytes, of an IPv6 address.
 	IPv6AddressSize = 16
 
+	// IPv6MaximumPayloadSize is the maximum size of a valid IPv6 payload per
+	// RFC 8200 Section 4.5.
+	IPv6MaximumPayloadSize = 65535
+
 	// IPv6ProtocolNumber is IPv6's network protocol number.
 	IPv6ProtocolNumber tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber = 0x86dd
 
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/udp.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/udp.go
index 9339d637f..98bdd29db 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/header/udp.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/udp.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ package header
 
 import (
 	"encoding/binary"
+	"math"
 
 	"gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/tcpip"
 )
@@ -55,6 +56,10 @@ const (
 	// UDPMinimumSize is the minimum size of a valid UDP packet.
 	UDPMinimumSize = 8
 
+	// UDPMaximumSize is the maximum size of a valid UDP packet. The length field
+	// in the UDP header is 16 bits as per RFC 768.
+	UDPMaximumSize = math.MaxUint16
+
 	// UDPProtocolNumber is UDP's transport protocol number.
 	UDPProtocolNumber tcpip.TransportProtocolNumber = 17
 )