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Subject: Re: bge0: discard frame w/o packet header
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> > Either way it sounds like someone has discovered a DOS in bge.
>
> No, it just about has to be a bug -- either in the mbuf allocator, the
> driver, or the NIC hardware.  M_PKTHDR is a flag in the mbuf header,
> an area that isn't touched by packet data.  The driver allocates
> all of its receive mbufs with the M_PKTHDR flag set.  There's no
> legitimate way for the flag to get cleared, and nothing coming in on
> the wire should be able to cause it to be cleared.

I mean a bug in if_bge.c - there are a lot of ways that this could
happen - not calling M_GETHDR, mis-calling m_pullup etc.

          -Kip