RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH v2] examples/ipsec-secgw: fix SA salt endianness problem

[Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>]

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> From: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 12:42 AM
> To: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>; Chaoyong He
> <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: oss-drivers@corigine.com; Shihong Wang <shihong.wang@corigine.com>;
> stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH v2] examples/ipsec-secgw: fix SA salt
> endianness problem
> 
> > Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH v2] examples/ipsec-secgw: fix SA salt
> > endianness problem
> >
> > > From: Shihong Wang <shihong.wang@corigine.com>
> > >
> > > The SA salt of struct ipsec_sa is a CPU-endian u32 variable, but it’s
> > > value is stored in an array of encryption or authentication keys
> > > according to big-endian. So it maybe need to convert the endianness
> > > order to ensure that the value assigned to the SA salt is CPU-endian.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 50d75cae2a2c ("examples/ipsec-secgw: initialize SA salt")
> > > Fixes: 9413c3901f31 ("examples/ipsec-secgw: support additional algorithms")
> > > Fixes: 501e9c226adf ("examples/ipsec-secgw: add AEAD parameters")
> > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Shihong Wang <shihong.wang@corigine.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
> > >
> > Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
> >
> > Applied to dpdk-next-crypto
> 
> The patch is pulled back from dpdk-next-crypto.
> This change may cause all the PMDs to fail these cases.
> Would need acks from PMDs.

Applied to dpdk-next-crypto
No update from PMD owners.
Applying it before RC2 so that we have time for fixes if needed.