[PATCH net-next 03/10] ibmveth: do not assume mac header is set in ibmveth_start_xmit()
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-09-02 00:33:52
Subsystem:
ibm power virtual ethernet device driver, linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Nick Child, Madhavan Srinivasan, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
We should not assume mac header is set in output path. Use skb_eth_hdr() instead of eth_hdr() to fix the issue. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
index 73e051d26b9d8887cfed1c4168684ae199bd3108..88e8bdfbcd11293d2cc0a36ebea6dfffa50bcedd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c@@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@ static int ibmveth_is_packet_unsupported(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ethhdr *ether_header; int ret = 0; - ether_header = eth_hdr(skb); + ether_header = skb_eth_hdr(skb); if (ether_addr_equal(ether_header->h_dest, netdev->dev_addr)) { netdev_dbg(netdev, "veth doesn't support loopback packets, dropping packet.\n");
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