I built a test kernel with commit cfddd4c.  The test kernel can be downloaded 
from:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1743746

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

Note, to test this kernel, you need to install both the linux-image and
linux-image-extra .deb packages.

Thanks in advance!

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Title:
  4.13: unable to increase MTU configuration for GRE devices

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Artful:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  GRE overlay networks can't carry traffic with MTU > 1500

  [Test Case]
  sudo add-apt-repository cloud-archive:pike
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install openvswitch-switch
  sudo ovs-vsctl add-br br-tun
  sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br-tun gre0 -- set interface gre0 type=gre 
options:remote_ip=10.100.1.1

  gre_sys device will be configured with MTU 1472.

  sudo ip link set gre_sys mtu 65000

  will fail with EINVAL.

  [Regression Potential]

  [Bug Report]

  Under Linux 4.13 its not possible to configure GRE tunnel devices with
  a MTU larger than 1500; this impacts on Open vSwitch (which creates
  tunnel devices for GRE overlay networking) and the ip tools.

  The kernel will error with:

    gre_sys: Invalid MTU 65000 requested, hw max 1500

  The side effect of this is that if overlay networks are configured
  with high MTUs, the gre devices fragment the packets and networking is
  generally slow/broken.

  This is resolved as part of the upcoming 4.15 kernel under:

  
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cfddd4c33c254954927942599d299b3865743146

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