In Linux virtio-net driver's (drivers/net/virtio_net.c) big packets mode 
(vi->big_packets && vi->mergeable_rx_bufs), the buf
pointer passed to receive_buf() is a struct page pointer, not a buffer
pointer. The current code incorrectly casts this page pointer directly as
a virtio_net_common_hdr, causing it to read flags from the page struct
memory instead of the actual packet data.

Signed-off-by: Wen Xin <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 7646ddd9bef7..c10f5585bc88 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -2566,7 +2566,13 @@ static void receive_buf(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct 
receive_queue *rq,
         * virtnet_xdp_set()), so packets marked as
         * VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM get dropped during XDP processing.
         */
-       flags = ((struct virtio_net_common_hdr *)buf)->hdr.flags;
+       if (vi->big_packets && !vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) {
+               struct virtio_net_common_hdr *hdr = page_address((struct page 
*)buf);
+
+               flags = hdr->hdr.flags;
+       } else {
+               flags = ((struct virtio_net_common_hdr *)buf)->hdr.flags;
+       }
 
        if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
                skb = receive_mergeable(dev, vi, rq, buf, ctx, len, xdp_xmit,
-- 
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)


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