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Corrige un error de desreferencia de puntero nulo provocado por el controlador tap. Cuando tap_get_user llama a virtio_net_hdr_to_skb, skb-&gt;dev es nulo (en tap.c, skb-&gt;dev se establece despu\u00e9s de la llamada a virtio_net_hdr_to_skb). virtio_net_hdr_to_skb llama a dev_parse_header_protocol, que requiere que el campo skb-&gt;dev sea v\u00e1lido. La l\u00ednea que activa el error est\u00e1 en dev_parse_header_protocol (dev est\u00e1 en el desplazamiento 0x10 desde skb y est\u00e1 almacenado en el registro RAX) if (!dev-&gt;header_ops || !dev-&gt;header_ops-&gt;parse_protocol) 22e1: mov 0x10(%rbx),%rax 22e5: mov 0x230(%rax),%rax Configurar skb-&gt;dev antes de la llamada en tap.c soluciona el problema. 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