CVE-2026-98306

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The bit stayed clear in the\ncommon case, and with CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6 the leftover frag_max_size of\na reassembled outer packet could even set it, with no VRF involved.\nCommit 44930446dde4 (\"ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP\ndecapsulation\") then made the unreliable bit reliably clear.\n\nThe effect of the missing flag is visible with End.DX4 when a\ndelivery to a local address of the node reaches the socket lookup.\nFor example, a UDP socket bound to the enslaved ingress interface\ndoes not receive any of the decapsulated packets, while an unbound\nsocket outside the VRF does.\nThis contradicts Documentation/networking/vrf.rst: by default the\nscope of an unbound UDP or TCP socket is limited to the default VRF.\n\nSet IPSKB_L3SLAVE for IPv4 in decap_and_validate(), which already does\nthe same for IPv6. The socket lookup then matches the decapsulated\npacket like any other packet received on that enslaved interface. 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