Re: [PATCH net v2] net/packet: reset the MAC header on the packet-socket transmit path

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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:40:15 +0200 you wrote:
> packet_parse_headers() resets the MAC header only for a SOCK_RAW frame
> whose socket did not bind a protocol. A protocol-bound SOCK_RAW socket,
> any SOCK_DGRAM frame, and the legacy SOCK_PACKET path therefore leave
> skb->mac_header unset here.
> 
> For frames sent via __dev_queue_xmit() this is harmless: it resets the
> MAC header unconditionally. But the packet-socket PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS
> path uses dev_direct_xmit(), which does not, so the frame reaches
> ndo_start_xmit() with the MAC header unset. A driver that reads
> eth_hdr(skb) on transmit then dereferences skb->head + (u16)~0, an
> out-of-bounds access ~64 KiB past the head -- the same class fixed for
> one consumer in commit f5089008f90c ("macsec: do not read an unset MAC
> header in macsec_encrypt()").
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v2] net/packet: reset the MAC header on the packet-socket transmit path
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c2707480cfbf

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