Access MAC address from sk_buff

Question

I'm writing a kernel module to get the MAC address from a packet stored in sk_buff. I've used the following code to print the MAC address of source and destination:

struct ethhdr *mh = eth_hdr(skb);  
printk(KERN_EMERG "Source MAC=%x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x\n",mh->h_source[0],mh->h_source[1],mh->h_source[2],mh->h_source[3],mh->h_source[4],mh->h_source[5]);  

The destination address can be accessed using h_dest inplace of h_source.
My problem is that the source MAC address is always a8:c0:0:0:a8:c0 and the destination MAC address is always some junk value instead of my own MAC address.
Can anyone help me out on this? I want to get the correct MAC addresses.

Answer 1

Where exactly in the kernel are you doing this?

a8:c0 looks quite suspicious. It translates to 168.192 in decimal, which makes me suspect that you're in fact looking at the IPv4 header rather than the Ethernet header.

Answer 2

Using eth_hdr only makes sense if the skb actually has a MAC header. If it does not, the skb's MAC header pointer will just point to other data in the packet.