Re: [PATCH] net/nfp: fix set IPv6 flow action can't get right address

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>]

On 6/9/2023 2:43 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 6/9/2023 7:19 AM, Chaoyong He wrote:
>> The former logic of set IPv6 source/destination address flow action
>> can't get the right IPV6 address, a 32 bit big endian value is
>> expected while a 8 bit value is provided.
>> This caused the offloaded packets don't have the right IPv6 address
>> as expected.
>>
>> Fixes: 596ae2217214 ("net/nfp: support IPv6 source flow action")
>> Fixes: 51384f79b264 ("net/nfp: support IPv6 destination flow action")
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
>>
> 
> Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.
> 

Thomas highlighted the compiler warning from CI [1], dropping patch from
next-net, updated patchwork status.

Can you please check the warning?



[1]
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-report/2023-June/407776.html

```
../drivers/net/nfp/nfp_flow.c: In function 'nfp_flow_action_set_ipv6':
../drivers/net/nfp/nfp_flow.c:2168:3:
  error:
  dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
  [-Werror=strict-aliasing]

   set_ip->ipv6[i].exact = *(const rte_be32_t *)&set_ipv6->ipv6_addr[i * 4];
```